Luffy Ruffles

Drawn by Wallace Morgan with text by Charter Battell Loomis, *Luffy Ruffles* exemplifies the Sunday newspaper strip format that preceded the comic book. The strip combines sequential illustration with narrative prose and dialogue balloons across multiple panels, establishing visual sequences readers followed week to week. Morgan's pen work and panel layout guide the eye through an episodic story of a young character's misadventure with a horse and carriage. The Sunday supplement pages—rich with color and integrated text-image storytelling—provided the template for sequential art that later defined the medium.