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Uncle Wiggily's Adventures

· February 29, 1920

Uncle Wiggily's Adventures
This Sunday page follows Uncle Wiggily, a rabbit gentleman, and his companions through a snowy mishap in an automobile. The strip's nine-panel grid layout demonstrates the standardized visual format that newspaper comics developed in the early twentieth century. Through sequential panels with speech balloons, artist Lang Campbell narrates a complete comedic narrative: a stalled car, failed rescue attempts, an encounter with a porcupine, and eventual help from a teamster. The strip exemplifies how newspaper Sunday pages functioned as laboratories for comic storytelling, establishing recurring characters and episodic adventures that would later define the comic book medium. Recurring characters and serialized plots kept readers engaged across multiple appearances in the funny pages.

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