Uncle Wiggily's Adventures

Uncle Wiggily, a rabbit gentleman in a top hat, stars in this six-panel Sunday comic strip by Howard R. Garis and Lang Campbell. The narrative follows Wiggily and animal companions as they construct a hammock, encounter the Crocodile and Raccoon, and face various small adventures involving electric batteries and wires. The strip exemplifies early newspaper comics: recurring characters with distinct personalities, sequential panel storytelling with speech balloons advancing plot, and the visual vocabulary—silhouettes, expressions, action lines—that defined the medium. By the 1920s, such Sunday strips had become central to newspaper circulation, establishing the formal and narrative conventions that would anchor comic books for decades to come.