Pups: You Can't Tell Which Way a Kite Will Flop

This Sunday page strips away narrative for pure visual comedy: eight panels of dogs and a kite, each frame a variation on chaos. The humor lies entirely in sequential action—a dog chases, tangles, spins, crashes—building predictable expectation only to upend it. Steinigans uses the panel grid as a timing device, letting readers predict outcomes that don't arrive. The recurring dog character, simple bold linework, and reliance on pantomime over text represent the formal vocabulary early newspaper comics inherited from Victorian illustration and developed into cinema-like visual storytelling. By the 1910s, Sunday pages like this had become laboratories where artists tested how panels, repetition, and spatial narrative could generate humor independent of words.