Grimes's Goat

A Sunday newspaper comic strip by Steinigans featuring the misadventures of a mischievous goat. The narrative unfolds across nine panels: a man brings home a goat promised to solve a problem, hires it as a chauffeur, then watches chaos unfold as the animal wreaks havoc on a city street—overturning a small automobile, scattering pedestrians, and destroying property in slapstick succession. The strip employs the formal conventions of early newspaper comics: uniform rectangular panels, speech balloons for dialogue, and sequential action that builds toward visual gags. The kinetic linework and crowded compositions reflect the energetic style of 1910s Sunday pages, when newspaper comics served as major entertainment for urban readers and established the visual vocabulary that would define the medium for generations.