The Diary of Snubs, Our Dog

This Sunday strip follows Snubs, a mischievous dog, through a day of domestic chaos. The narrative unfolds across six panels with hand-lettered first-person narration from the dog's perspective: finding old newspapers to play with, getting interrupted by another dog named Sponge, finishing destruction just before Sponge arrives, and ultimately concluding that dogs understand fun with newspapers better than humans do.

The strip exemplifies early comic page design, with varying panel sizes and integrated text-image storytelling. The loose, expressive linework and simple character design were typical of 1920s newspaper comics, where recurring animal characters offered gentle humor for family audiences. Such strips appeared in Sunday rotogravure sections and helped establish visual narrative conventions that became foundational to the emerging comic book medium.