From the exhibition
Uncle Wiggily's Adventures
· December 19, 1920

This Sunday page follows Uncle Wiggily, a rabbit character in human dress, through a Christmas adventure involving forest animals—fox, bear, wolf, and others—rendered in Lang Campbell's energetic pen style. The strip demonstrates the visual vocabulary of 1920s newspaper comics: multiple panels arranged in rows, speech balloons carrying narrative and dialogue, and recurring animal characters in anthropomorphic settings. Created by Howard R. Garis with illustrations by Campbell, *Uncle Wiggily's Adventures* exemplified how newspaper comic strips of this era combined serialized storytelling with visual narrative techniques that would become foundational to comic books. The strip's episodic format, character-driven humor, and consistent art style made it a staple of Sunday funny pages across American newspapers.
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