The Diary of Snubs, Our Dog

This newspaper comic strip adopts the perspective of a family dog named Snubs, narrating his daily adventures through a series of six sequential panels. Each scene—from an exciting game of tag interrupted by the boss's arrival, to begging at the dinner table, to stealing cookies on the porch—is accompanied by handwritten diary entries in the dog's voice. The strip employs the visual grammar of early newspaper comics: distinct bordered panels, speech balloons, and recurring characters (the dog, children, and adults) who anchor reader engagement across installments. Published during the 1920s, when Sunday and daily comic strips became essential features of American newspapers, Snubs exemplifies how cartoonists used sequential art and anthropomorphic characters to create humor accessible to readers of all ages.