Splinters by Steinigans

A Sunday comic strip featuring recurring animal characters in a slapstick narrative. A spotted dog protagonist pursues fresh sausages through multiple panels, encountering obstacles and competing with a butcher. The strip demonstrates the visual conventions emerging in early newspaper comics: sequential panels advancing plot, speech balloons carrying dialogue and character voice, and exaggerated physical comedy. The repeating character type and episodic humor typical of Sunday funnies provided the narrative structure that would define comic strips and influence the development of comic books. Steinigans' work exemplifies how newspaper cartoons of this era established the visual grammar and storytelling methods central to the medium's growth.