The Diary of Snubs, Our Dog

A dog's first-person account of searching for his owner, "the Boss," who failed to arrive at the usual time. Snubs travels to the schoolyard, barks to summon help, and spots a head in a window—possibly his master. The final panel reveals the boss had been locked in the school building and was delighted to escape with the dog's assistance. This strip exemplifies the newspaper comic's visual conventions: sequential panels, speech balloons, and a recurring animal protagonist whose human-like reasoning and emotional life drive the narrative. The anthropomorphized dog became a staple of early comics, allowing artists to explore humor and sentiment through animal perspective.