Fluffy Ruffles

Wallace Morgan's *Fluffy Ruffles* follows a fashionable young woman through costume parties and masquerade balls, her adventures told across six sequential panels. Each scene advances the narrative through action and dialogue, with speech balloons anchoring character interaction. The strip demonstrates the visual conventions emerging in newspaper comics: consistent character design, varied panel composition, and reliance on costume gags and social satire. Sunday newspaper comic sections like this one served as the direct precursor to the modern comic book, establishing both the serialized format and the graphic language—panels, balloons, recurring cast—that would define sequential art for generations to come.