The Diary of Snubs, Our Dog

This Sunday strip employs the animal protagonist—a device that flourished in early newspaper comics. Snubs the dog narrates his weekend adventures in first-person captions, recounting attempts to introduce a cat named Sponge to a friend, only to watch the plan backfire when the cat chases his pal instead. The strip uses sequential panels with speech balloons and expository text to advance a simple narrative with a payoff. By the 1920s, such character-driven strips had become standard fare in the Sunday funny pages, establishing visual conventions—recurring cast, personality-driven humor, panel-to-panel continuity—that would define the medium as it matured into the comic book format.