Your Dog and Your Temper

Albert Payson Terhune's Sunday strip combines sequential art with practical advice, following a domestic scene in which a woman scolds her dog for misbehavior in snow. The narrative unfolds across multiple panels with speech balloons and continuous action—a boy watching nearby, the dog's contrasting moods, and the woman's eventual recognition of her unfair treatment. Terhune uses recurring characters and episodic plots to explore human-animal relationships. This work exemplifies the newspaper Sunday page format that emerged in the early twentieth century, where cartoonists developed the visual vocabulary of modern comics: panel borders, expressive lettering, and sequential storytelling that could convey both humor and moral instruction in a single installment.