Fluffy Ruffles

Wallace Morgan's *Fluffy Ruffles* exemplifies the Sunday comic strip in its formative years—a narrative sequence told across six panels with recurring characters and sequential gags. The strip follows a young girl and her companions through a football-themed Thanksgiving misadventure, using speech balloons and expressive line work to convey action and dialogue. Morgan's economical drawings establish character through posture and gesture rather than detail, a technique that would become standard in newspaper comics. The dense panel composition and reliance on verbal setup-and-payoff humor reflect the conventions that emerged as daily and Sunday strips became the primary laboratory for comic art's visual language in the early 1900s.