Just Dog

A newspaper comic strip following the adventures of Buddy, a resourceful dog who discovers Old Jones burying something mysterious. The strip demonstrates the visual conventions that shaped early comics: sequential panels with clear narrative progression, speech balloons for dialogue, and animal characters as protagonists—a popular formula in 1920s newspaper comics. The three-panel layout moves from discovery to action to payoff, with Buddy sharing his find with fellow dogs Angus McLeod and Bucky Kelly. The bold ink linework and expressive animal figures typify the daily strip format that predated the comic book industry, establishing the grammar of panel-to-panel storytelling that would define the medium.