Buddie and His Friends

Rob L. Dickey's *Buddie and His Friends* deploys the visual vocabulary that had crystallized in newspaper comics by the 1920s: sequential panels, speech balloons, and a recurring cast of animal characters. Here, Buddie the dog and his gang scheme to wreak havoc during their owner's two-week absence—a simple premise executed through clear panel progression and physical comedy. The strip's economy of line and direct sight gags typify the daily newspaper comic, a form that evolved from Sunday pages into the fundamental grammar of sequential art that would define the emerging comic book medium.