How Some Dogs "Get Even"

Albert Payson Terhune's Sunday page combines illustration and prose narrative—a hybrid form common in early newspaper comics. The strip opens with Old Man Negley recounting dog stories to Colonel Brower, then shifts to sequential panels showing a Newfoundland and bulldog exacting revenge on hunters who mistreated them. Terhune uses pen-and-ink linework typical of 1920s newspaper illustration, with gestural figures and cross-hatching. Speech balloons anchor dialogue while extended text blocks provide narration. This mixing of word and image across panels—with recurring characters and a plot spanning multiple frames—exemplifies how the Sunday newspaper page became a laboratory for visual storytelling that would define the comic medium.