Just Dog

This Sunday strip follows two Scots terriers through four panels of gentle humor. The first two panels show dogs singing Scottish folk lyrics to each other in stormy weather. The lower panels shift tone: one dog invites his companion Angus to remedy his melancholy, leading to practical advice about eating grass and sleeping. The strip employs the visual conventions emerging in 1920s newspaper comics—sequential panels, speech balloons, and recurring characters—establishing narrative continuity across a single page. The style is economical but expressive, using ink hatching to convey texture and emotion. Such Sunday features in major papers reached millions of readers daily, making newspaper comics the primary visual storytelling medium before comic books emerged in the 1930s.