Splinters

This Sunday page follows a pack of dogs through two parallel narratives: the top row shows them discovering a litter of puppies and debating their "ridiculous" appearance; the bottom row depicts their owner attempting to manage the growing canine population indoors. Drawn in the loose, energetic line work typical of early newspaper comics, *Splinters* uses sequential panels with speech balloons to build visual gags across the page. The strip exemplifies how Sunday comics of this era—appearing in newspapers nationwide—established conventions that would define the medium: recurring characters, panel-to-panel continuity, and domestic humor derived from physical comedy and animal behavior. Such strips were direct precursors to the bound comic books that would emerge decades later.