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Fluffy Ruffles

· 1908

Fluffy Ruffles
This Sunday newspaper strip by Wallace Morgan follows Fluffy Ruffles and her companions through domestic adventures and social mishaps. The narrative unfolds across six panels using speech balloons and sequential frames—visual conventions that defined early comic strips. Morgan's pen style emphasizes character expression and period costume detail. *Fluffy Ruffles* exemplifies the Sunday supplement format that flourished in the 1900s, when newspaper comics became a primary vehicle for developing recurring characters and ongoing storylines. These strips, distributed nationally through syndication, established the visual grammar and narrative structures that would become foundational to comic books.

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