Grimes's Goat

A Sunday strip following the mishaps of a mischievous goat loose in an urban setting. The narrative unfolds across eight panels using sequential art conventions—speech balloons, varied perspective, and physical comedy—to chronicle the animal's rampage through a city block. Characters react with escalating panic as the goat demolishes property and scatters bystanders. The strip demonstrates the visual storytelling techniques that emerged in early newspaper comics: panel-to-panel progression, expressive silhouettes, and slapstick gags dependent on the medium's ability to show cause and effect across frames. This format, refined through Sunday supplements and daily strips in the 1900s-1910s, directly shaped the language of comic books that would follow.