Grimes's Goat

A Sunday strip by Steinigans following the anarchic adventures of a mischievous goat loose in a clothing store. The narrative unfolds across ten panels with escalating chaos: the animal devours merchandise, tramples displays, and creates havoc among staff and customers. Speech balloons carry rapid-fire dialogue while action lines and dynamic figure work convey frenetic movement. The strip exemplifies early newspaper comic conventions—sequential panels, recurring animal protagonist, slapstick humor—that shaped the visual language of American comics. Such Sunday pages, printed in color and prominently featured in newspapers nationwide, reached millions of readers and established the foundational grammar: panel borders, expressive caricature, and visual gags that would define the medium for decades.