The Diary of Snubs, Our Dog

This Sunday strip follows Snubs the dog as he narrates his week in first-person voice, a technique that gives animal characters human perspective and humor. The strip uses sequential panels with speech balloons to show Snubs discovering a fence gap made by neighbor Mr. Simpson, enlisting Major the dog in problem-solving, and ultimately finding an elegant solution—going over the fence himself while Snubs crawls under it. The visual storytelling relies on comic timing across multiple panels and the contrast between the dogs' and humans' understanding of the situation. Such anthropomorphic animal comics were staples of 1920s newspaper funny pages, building directly on earlier strips that pioneered the panel-based visual language comics still employ today.