Splinters

This comic strip follows a mischievous dog causing nighttime havoc in a household. The narrative unfolds across six panels: a woman and man attempt to establish routines for their pet, but the dog repeatedly disrupts sleep by barking and creating disturbances. The strip employs the visual conventions that defined early newspaper comics—sequential panel layout, speech balloons, and a recurring animal character—hallmarks of the medium's rapid evolution in the 1910s. Drawn in the spare, gestural style typical of the period, *Splinters* exemplifies how newspapers serialized humor through visual storytelling, establishing patterns that would become foundational to American comic strip tradition.