Grimes's Goat

This Sunday comic strip follows the chaos unleashed when Grimes acquires a goat—a creature whose destructive energy drives the narrative across eight sequential panels. The artist employs the visual conventions that were crystallizing in early newspaper comics: dialogue balloons, expressive caricature, and dynamic action poses that guide readers left-to-right through escalating gags. Grimes's Goat belongs to the slapstick tradition of early-twentieth-century newspaper humor, where animal characters served as agents of mayhem in domestic and commercial settings. The strip's format—self-contained gags within a larger episodic frame—reflects the Sunday page layout that emerged as newspapers competed for readers. These strips were the direct ancestors of the comic book, establishing the panel structure, sequential logic, and character recurrence that would define the medium for decades.