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Uncle Wiggily's Adventures

· February 6, 1921

Uncle Wiggily's Adventures
A full Sunday page featuring Uncle Wiggily, the long-eared rabbit protagonist created by Howard R. Garis and illustrated by Lang Campbell. The strip exemplifies the newspaper comic's narrative structure: multiple panels arranged in sequence tell a complete story, here involving Uncle Wiggily hosting a party disrupted by the Bad Blue Nosed Baboon. Speech balloons convey dialogue and thought; recurring animal characters and a consistent visual style support reader familiarity across weekly installments. The dense layout and integrated text-image storytelling demonstrate how newspaper comics of this era functioned as serialized entertainment, establishing conventions—panel borders, sequential flow, character consistency—that became foundational to the medium.

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