The Diary of Snubs, Our Dog

This Sunday strip follows Snubs, a small dog, through a day of domestic misadventure told from the pet's perspective. The narrative moves across four panels using speech balloons to convey the dog's thoughts, a technique that became standard in newspaper comics. Snubs spots his master relaxed on the lawn and attempts to engage him in play, only to be rebuffed. When the dog persists, he's chased away angrily. The final panel shows Snubs exacting revenge by nipping at the master's hand. The strip uses sequential art with varied panel compositions and expressive line work to build comedic timing. Such anthropomorphic animal strips were popular vehicles for visual humor in the newspaper Sunday pages, which served as laboratories for the emerging language of comics.