From the exhibition
Fluffy Ruffles
· April 5, 1908

This Sunday page follows Fluffy Ruffles through a mishap involving unpaid bills and mysterious parcels. Wallace Morgan's drawings employ the visual conventions that defined early newspaper comics: multiple rectangular panels arranged in sequence, speech balloons carrying dialogue, and recurring character types rendered in expressive line work. Published in the newspaper Sunday supplements, strips like this one established the visual vocabulary of sequential art—panel progression, figure staging, and narrative flow—that became foundational to the emerging medium of comic books. Morgan's compositions guide the reader's eye across the page while maintaining clarity in each discrete scene.
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