Fluffy Ruffles

Wallace Morgan's *Fluffy Ruffles* exemplifies the Sunday newspaper comic strip at its height. The serial follows a young woman navigating employment, social obligations, and romance through sequential panels that advance a continuous narrative across multiple frames. Morgan employs established visual conventions—speech balloons, varied panel sizes, recurring characters—to guide readers through Fluffy's predicaments and their resolutions. The strip's domestic comedy reflects both newspaper comics' emergence as popular entertainment and the formal vocabulary that would become foundational to comic books: the panel grid, expressive figure drawing, and integrated text-and-image storytelling that transformed sequential art into a distinct medium.