Uncle Wiggily's Adventures

This Sunday page strips follows Uncle Wiggily, an anthropomorphic rabbit, and Billy Bunny through a winter outing that spirals into comic misadventure. Text by Howard R. Caris and pictures by Lang Campbell, the strip employs the visual conventions that defined early newspaper comics: sequential panels with speech balloons, recurring characters in episodic plots, and slapstick action played for humor. Uncle Wiggily ran as both daily and Sunday strips from 1910 onward, establishing the rabbit as a staple of the funny pages. The strip's narrative style—gentle mishaps and resolutions—shaped the genteel adventure formula that competed with more anarchic humor strips of the era, proving that newspaper comics could reach diverse family audiences through character consistency and formulaic, reassuring plots.