Spareribs and Gravy Hunt Rabbits in Woof-Nuff

George McManus's *Woof-Nuff* strips follow a dog and mischievous children through slapstick hunts and physical comedy across eight panels. The narrative unfolds through sequential art with speech balloons and varied perspectives—visual techniques that newspapers pioneered as the foundation of modern comics. McManus employs exaggerated proportions and dynamic poses to convey motion and humor. The strip reflects early-twentieth-century Sunday comics' reliance on broad physical gags and animal characters. Children are depicted with period-typical ethnic caricature features. This newspaper serial format—where artists developed recurring characters and visual storytelling conventions in dailies and Sunday sections—directly preceded the collected comic books that emerged in the 1930s.