Pups—Don't Think Every Welcome Means You

This Sunday page by Steinigans uses sequential panels and speech balloons to tell a narrative joke about uninvited guests. A single dog begins at a welcome mat; successive panels show more dogs arriving, then crowding indoors, and finally overwhelming the household in chaos. The visual escalation builds humor through repetition and accumulation. By 1910, newspaper comic strips had established core conventions—recurring characters, panel borders, and word balloons—that would define the medium. Sunday pages like this one offered artists space for elaborate gags and visual experimentation, making them laboratories for the visual grammar that shaped the emerging comic book form.