Grimes's Goat

A Sunday newspaper strip by Steinigans featuring the misadventures of a mischievous goat loose in an urban apartment building. The eight-panel layout demonstrates the sequential visual storytelling that defined early comics: each panel advances a physical gag through clear cause-and-effect, with characters' expressions and body language carrying much of the humor. Speech balloons anchor dialogue while visual chaos—overturned furniture, fleeing residents, colliding bodies—drives the narrative. The strip's reliance on slapstick and property destruction reflects the comedic conventions of silent film and vaudeville, genres that shaped newspaper comics' visual language and pacing during this formative period.