Fluffy Ruffles

A Sunday newspaper strip drawn by Wallace Morgan with text by Charles Belitell Loomis. *Fluffy Ruffles* follows a young woman through comedic encounters with fortune hunters and adventurers. The strip employs the visual vocabulary emerging in early comics: sequential panels, speech balloons, recurring character types, and pen-and-ink illustration. Morgan's figural drawing and narrative pacing shaped how stories could unfold across the newspaper page. These Sunday supplements—printed in color and read by millions—proved the commercial viability of serialized visual storytelling and directly led to the first bound comic books.