Splinters by Steinigans

A six-panel Sunday strip following the misadventures of a woman and her unruly dogs. The narrative escalates from a simple question about old fleas to escalating chaos—the pups ransacking curtains, launching plants, and finally staging an all-out attack on the exasperated woman indoors. Steinigans employs the visual conventions established by newspaper comics in the early 1900s: sequential panels, speech balloons, and a recurring domestic cast. The strip's humor derives from physical comedy and the mounting disorder typical of slapstick Sunday pages. Such strips were the direct precursors to comic books, establishing how artists could tell stories through panel layout, character repetition, and visual gags across serialized weekly installments.