Grimes's Goat

A Sunday newspaper comic strip featuring physical comedy centered on a mischievous goat wreaking havoc on its owner. The six-panel layout follows classic early-twentieth-century newspaper construction, with sequential action developing across tiers. Each panel uses speech balloons to advance plot and gags—a man's escalating frustration as the animal destroys his clothing and disrupts domestic order. The strip demonstrates the visual vocabulary established by newspaper comics: bordered panels, varied perspectives, exaggerated body language for comedic effect. Such Sunday pages, appearing in newspapers nationwide, formed the immediate precursor to the comic books that emerged in the 1930s, establishing recurring characters, episodic humor, and the fundamental grammar of sequential art that comics inherited directly from the dailies and Sunday strips of the 1910s.