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Fluffy Ruffles

· December 27, 1908

Fluffy Ruffles
A Sunday newspaper comic strip drawn by Wallace Morgan, featuring the adventures of Fluffy Ruffles in Paris. The strip employs sequential panels with speech balloons to narrate Fluffy's New Year's Eve misadventure at the Bal Bullier, a famous Parisian dance hall. Panel progression moves readers through establishing shots, dialogue scenes, and climactic action—visual techniques foundational to comic storytelling. Morgan's ink drawings demonstrate the graphic economy of newspaper comics: expressive linework, clear character distinction, and readable compositions sized for print reproduction. Fluffy Ruffles exemplifies the Sunday supplement's role as laboratory for modern comics language, where recurring characters and continuing narratives trained readers in the visual codes that would define the medium.

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