From the exhibition
Uncle Wiggily's Adventures
· January 9, 1921

This Sunday page follows Uncle Wiggily, a rabbit gentleman, through a series of connected episodes involving animal companions—cats, a bear, a wolf—and domestic mishaps. The strip employs the visual conventions that defined early newspaper comics: bordered panels arranged in rows, speech balloons advancing dialogue, and recurring characters in escalating situations. Text by Howard R. Garis and pictures by Lang Campbell, *Uncle Wiggily* ran as both daily and Sunday installments, exemplifying how newspaper comics strips of the 1920s built narrative momentum across multiple panels and episodes. The dense layouts and reliance on written exposition reflect the transitional form between illustrated stories and the visual-dominant comics language that would emerge in subsequent decades.
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