Just Dog

This Sunday strip follows a Scottish terrier named Angus through a four-panel sequence of physical comedy. When asked how he learned to swim, Angus offers a terse lesson: "Swim or drown!" The gag escalates across the panels as he demonstrates by tossing his friend into the water. The strip employs the visual conventions established by newspaper comics in the 1920s—sequential panels, speech balloons, and recurring animal characters—that became foundational to comic book storytelling. Rendered in pen-and-ink line work typical of the Sunday funnies, *Just Dog* exemplifies how the newspaper comic page served as the laboratory for developing narrative and graphic techniques that would define the medium for decades.