From the exhibition
Fluffy Ruffles
· 1908

Drawn by Wallace Morgan, this Sunday page follows Fluffy, a mischievous girl navigating domestic schemes and social mishaps. The strip demonstrates the visual vocabulary of early comics: multiple panels arranged in sequence, speech balloons anchoring dialogue, and recurring characters in episodic plots. Morgan's pen style—fine cross-hatching and expressive figure work—typifies the newspaper comic aesthetic inherited from illustration. *Fluffy Ruffles* appeared during the critical period when Sunday supplements transformed sequential art from gag cartoons into narrative strips, establishing conventions that shaped the emerging comic book form.
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