Fluffy Ruffles

Wallace Morgan's *Fluffy Ruffles* follows a young woman navigating turn-of-the-century New York—from Herald Square crowds to newspaper offices and society events. The strip employs sequential panels with speech balloons to chronicle her daily misadventures and observations, establishing a recurring cast and episodic structure. Morgan's pen work demonstrates the visual vocabulary that newspaper comics were standardizing: clear panel borders, expressive figures, and integrated text-image storytelling. *Fluffy Ruffles* exemplifies the Sunday supplement strips that preceded the comic book, showing how artists of this era invented panel layout and character continuity—the formal language comics would inherit.