Buddie and His Friends

A Sunday newspaper strip by Rob. L. Dickey featuring Buddie, a large dog, and his smaller companion. The humor turns on canine perspective: Buddie offers to share ice cream to cheer his friend, then protests when the smaller dog includes forbidden foods—chocolates and dog biscuits—citing tooth loss and digestive trouble. The strip exemplifies early comics' reliance on recurring animal characters, speech balloons, and sequential panels. Sunday pages like this one established the visual and narrative conventions that would define the medium, mixing physical comedy with wordplay and personality-driven gags that kept readers returning daily.