Fluffy Ruffles

Wallace Morgan's *Fluffy Ruffles* appeared in Sunday newspapers as a full-page narrative strip, combining prose narration with sequential panels. The story follows a proper young girl navigating beach social life and romance—a common theme in early 1900s comic strips. Morgan's ink drawings employ speech balloons and panel borders to guide readers through multiple scenes, from seaside encounters to swimming and casual dialogue. The strip exemplifies how Sunday comics evolved beyond single gags into serialized domestic comedy, blending illustration with literary storytelling. These newspaper strips established the visual vocabulary—recurring characters, sequential panels, word balloons—that would form the foundation of the comic book medium.