Fluffy Ruffles

Wallace Morgan's *Fluffy Ruffles* follows a young girl's Christmas shop venture through six sequential panels, each advancing the narrative with speech balloons and detailed pen-and-ink line work. The strip demonstrates the Sunday newspaper comic's full-page format, combining single large scene with numbered vignettes below. Morgan employs clear panel borders, overlapping figures for depth, and expressive character drawing to track Fluffy's entrepreneurial schemes and their consequences. By 1908, newspaper comics had established their visual vocabulary—recurring characters, sequential storytelling, and word-image integration—that would define the emerging medium. *Fluffy Ruffles* exemplifies how Sunday supplements became laboratories for comic narrative before the first bound collections appeared.