Faithful Fido—You Can't Lose Him

This Sunday strip by Clare Briggs follows a small dog's determination to reunite with his owner across a series of escalating chases and mishaps. Using sequential panels and speech balloons to advance the narrative, Briggs employs slapstick humor and animal persistence as his plot engine—the dog pursuing a car, being retrieved multiple times, and ultimately locating his master at a gentlemen's club. Briggs was among the first cartoonists to establish consistent character types and visual gags across recurring strips, helping establish the formal language that would define newspaper comics and, subsequently, the comic book medium itself.