Grimes's Goat

A Sunday newspaper comic strip by Steinigans featuring a recurring goat character labeled 'Grimes's Goat.' The six-panel layout follows the animal through various misadventures involving Professor Grimes and other characters in urban settings—a street, a clothing store, a doorway. The strip employs speech balloons, sequential panel progression, and slapstick humor typical of early 1900s newspaper comics. The goat serves as the central character driving physical comedy across scenes. This strip exemplifies the visual storytelling conventions that emerged in newspaper Sunday pages and dailies, establishing the visual grammar—panels, word balloons, recurring characters—that became foundational to comic book narrative structure.