Where Cat and Dog Friendship Stopped

Albert Payson Terhune's illustrated narrative recounts a childhood incident between two animals—Buff the dog and Peter the cat—whose coexistence unravels into conflict. The piece combines prose storytelling with pen-and-ink drawings showing the animals in action across a landscape. Terhune, known for dog-focused fiction, uses sequential illustration to depict the escalating antagonism between the pets. This hybrid format—narrative text paired with sequential scenes—reflects the experimental visual storytelling of the 1920s newspaper page, where comic strips, illustrated stories, and prose illustrations shared space and influenced the emerging grammar of sequential art through panel composition, character positioning, and the accumulation of scenes to convey plot.