Splinters by Steinigans

This Sunday strip follows a dog's misadventure with firecrackers, told across eight panels. A child and dog hide under a brick structure as explosions erupt around them; the animal flees in panic through successive scenes of escalating chaos. Steinigans employs sequential panel layout with speech balloons and expressive line work to build comedic momentum. The strip exemplifies early newspaper comic conventions—recurring characters, sight gags, and dynamic action sequences—that shaped the visual language later adopted by comic books. Sunday pages like this were the primary venue for color comics and experimental storytelling before the comic book industry emerged in the 1930s.