Pups

A Sunday comic strip following small dogs at play in a snowy landscape. The narrative unfolds across eight panels, building toward a punchline: the pups' rough-and-tumble games escalate until they collide with a porcupine, resulting in a explosive scatter. Steinigans employs sequential art conventions—repeated characters, panel-to-panel action progression, and sight gags—that were becoming standard in newspaper comics of the era. The strip demonstrates how the Sunday page format allowed artists to develop narrative arcs and physical comedy through a series of images, establishing visual storytelling techniques that would anchor the emerging comic book medium.