Just Dog

A daily newspaper strip featuring a dog's misadventures told across two rows of panels. The first tier shows the dog reaching for sausages, boasting of his ability to taste them from a distance. The second reverses this swagger: after the sausages are removed, the dog laments the loss of his imagined feast. The strip employs the visual vocabulary established by early comic pioneers—sequential panels, speech balloons, and expressive animal characters that carry human personality. Published in newspapers alongside comics like *Felix the Cat* and *Krazy Kat*, strips like this one helped establish the comedic timing and sight gags that would define the emerging medium.