From the exhibition
Uncle Wiggily's Adventures
· December 5, 1920

This Sunday page follows Uncle Wiggily, a rabbit gentleman, through a series of misadventures involving candle grease, a sled, and various animal characters. The strip employs the visual vocabulary standard to newspaper comics: sequential panels with speech balloons, recurring characters, and sight gags tied to plot. Created by Howard R. Garis with illustrations by Lang Campbell, *Uncle Wiggily* ran in newspapers for decades, establishing the formula of episodic humor that defined the Sunday funnies. The strip demonstrates how newspaper comics of the 1920s used panel arrangement and character design to guide readers through narrative, laying groundwork for the visual grammar that would structure comic books.
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