Where They Have 'Dog Strikes'

Albert Payson Terhune's comic strip illustrates the newspaper Sunday page tradition: dense text narration paired with pen-and-ink illustrations and speech balloons. The strip follows a rambling narrative about labor disputes among working dogs on farms—a premise that allows Terhune to compare animal behavior with human social conflict. Multiple panels advance the story through visual sequence and dialogue, establishing the visual conventions that would define comic strips and eventually comic books. Terhune's approach reflects the early newspaper comic form's reliance on illustration to support extended narrative rather than comics' later economy of words.