Buddie and His Friends

Robert L. Dickey's *Buddie and His Friends* uses the Sunday strip format to develop a recurring cast of dogs with distinct personalities. The three-panel structure guides readers through a complete joke: Buddie and his companions discuss Thanksgiving gratitude during hard winter, then observe a passing bird, before the punchline reveals the bird's own abundance of blessings. Speech balloons advance the narrative while the ink-drawn figures and crosshatched backgrounds establish mood. This strip exemplifies how newspaper comics of the 1920s employed sequential art conventions—panel progression, character continuity, and visual gags—that would become foundational to comic book storytelling.