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Uncle Wiggily's Adventures

· November 7, 1920

Uncle Wiggily's Adventures
A nine-panel Sunday strip following Uncle Wiggily Longears, a rabbit gentleman, and animal boy companions on a woodland adventure involving a beaver, a pig, and escalating chaos. The narrative unfolds across a grid of equal rectangular panels, each advancing plot and gag in sequence—a structural grammar codified in American newspapers of the 1910s–20s. Speech balloons contain dialogue; captions anchor exposition below. The strip exemplifies the episodic storytelling and recurring cast that made newspaper comics engines of popular entertainment and direct ancestors of the comic book format that would emerge in the 1930s.

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