Spareribs and Gravy Depose King Woof-Nuff

George McManus's comic strip follows a scheming dog character through nine sequential panels, each framed with panel borders and dialogue balloons. The narrative arc—involving food, trickery, and physical comedy—unfolds across the page in a grid layout typical of Sunday newspaper comics. McManus employs exaggerated gestures, expressive line work, and visual gags to propel the plot. By 1912, the Sunday comic section had become a standard newspaper feature, with strips like this one establishing visual conventions that would define sequential art: recurring characters, standardized panel divisions, and speech integrated with imagery. Newspaper comics of this era served as the primary laboratory for developing the graphic storytelling techniques that would later codify the comic book form.