From the exhibition
Fluffy Ruffles
· 1908

This Sunday strip, drawn by Wallace Morgan with text by Charles Battell Loomis, follows Fluffy Ruffles, a young society girl navigating artistic pretension and romantic mishap. The narrative unfolds across multiple panels with integrated illustrations and prose—a hybrid form common in early newspaper comics. Morgan's loose, expressive line work captures gesture and social comedy through crowded parlor scenes and domestic interiors. The strip exemplifies how Sunday newspaper pages of this era blended sequential art, typography, and storytelling to create serialized entertainment that would become foundational to American comics.
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