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Uncle Wiggily's Adventures

· May 23, 1920

Uncle Wiggily's Adventures
This Sunday page follows Uncle Wiggily, a rabbit gentleman, and his animal companions through a domestic misadventure in the garden. The nine-panel layout uses sequential art to track a narrative: the discovery of dug-up beds, a search for the culprit, and eventual resolution. Lang Campbell's line work and Howard R. Garis's text establish the strip's formula of gentle mishaps and reassuring conclusions. *Uncle Wiggily's Adventures* exemplified the newspaper comic page's emerging visual grammar—panels, speech balloons, and recurring characters—that would become foundational to comic books. Originally syndicated from 1910, the strip reached millions of readers and demonstrated how sequential imagery could sustain episodic storytelling across multiple panels.

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