Grimes's Goat

*Grimes's Goat* by Steinigans follows a recurring cast through domestic misadventures with a mischievous goat at the center. The strip employs the visual conventions that defined early newspaper comics: sequential panels with speech balloons, expressive character reactions, and slapstick humor. Each panel advances a continuous narrative across the page, building to escalating chaos. The goat serves as the agent of disruption—eating property, causing collisions, and creating social embarrassment for the human characters. This format typified the Sunday comics supplement of the 1910s, where serial characters and physical comedy generated readership. Such strips established the visual language that would form the foundation of the American comic book medium.