Grimes's Goat

A Sunday newspaper comic strip following the misadventures of a mischievous goat loose in an urban setting. The narrative unfolds across eight panels in a grid layout, tracking the goat's escape from a clothing store and the escalating chaos it causes—from knocking over pedestrians to attracting police attention to drawing crowds. Steinigans uses sequential panels, speech balloons, and visual gags to build comedy through consequence. The strip exemplifies the narrative sophistication of early newspaper comics, which established conventions—panel borders, dialogue placement, recurring characters, and sight gags—that became foundational to comic book storytelling. Sunday funnies like this were laboratory for visual storytelling techniques that would define the medium for decades.