Buddie and His Friends

Robert L. Dickey's *Buddie and His Friends* follows a dog and his companions through domestic misadventures. This strip exemplifies the animal-character comedy that dominated newspaper comics in the 1920s, building on traditions established by *Felix the Cat* and *Krazy Kat*. The four-panel Sunday format, recurring cast of characters, and sight-gag structure were standard vocabulary for newspaper cartoonists working in the era before comic books emerged as a distinct medium. Dickey uses sequential panels, dialogue balloons, and expressive ink line work to carry the narrative—the visual grammar that would define the medium for decades.