Napoleon and Uncle Elby was a popular syndicated newspaper comic strip created by Clifford McBride, which launched on June 6, 1932.

[4] For a minor syndicate, Lafave Newspaper Features, McBride began Napoleon as a daily strip on June 6, 1932.

[4] Comics historian Don Markstein described the characters: Napoleon was a big, clumsy, ungainly dog, most likely an approximation of an Irish wolfhound.

As dogs go, he had a remarkably broad facial range, able to convey surprise, dismay, haughty disdain, grudging satisfaction and much more, as recognizable to readers as the expressions of any human character, and yet completely dog-like in every panel.

Napoleon's alleged "master", Uncle Elby, was no more able to impose his will on the dog than was Si Keeler on Maud the Mule.