Just Dog

A four-panel gag strip following a resourceful dog who recalls tasting coats at a pub, spots his master's old overseas tunic on the clothesline, and retrieves it—only to be caught in the act. The strip exemplifies the newspaper comic's visual economy: recurring character, escalating action across panels, and punchy dialogue delivered through speech balloons. By the 1920s, such daily strips populated newspapers nationwide, establishing the panel-based sequential narrative that would define comic books. Artists refined techniques of composition, pacing, and character expression that became the medium's foundational visual language.