Buddie and His Friends

A Sunday strip by Robert L. Dickey featuring a gang of dogs executing a lunch-pail theft scheme. The three-panel narrative—from setup through botched execution to comeuppance—demonstrates the visual economy of newspaper comics: speech balloons convey plan and reaction, sequential panels show cause and effect, and exaggerated linework conveys motion and chaos. The strip's recurring dog characters and situational humor typify the humor comics that flourished in dailies and Sunday supplements of the 1920s, visual predecessors to the comic book format that would emerge a decade later.