Uncle Wiggily's Adventures

This Sunday newspaper strip by Howard R. Garis and Lang Campbell follows Uncle Wiggily, an elderly rabbit gentleman, through a series of comic misadventures. The narrative unfolds across nine panels using speech balloons and sequential art to tell a complete story: Uncle Wiggily agrees to paint a picture for a little girl, but his lack of skill and overconfidence lead to chaos involving an alligator and a mocking bird. The strip demonstrates the visual conventions that defined early newspaper comics—recurring characters, panel progression, sight gags, and dialogue-driven humor. Popular from 1910 onward, *Uncle Wiggily* exemplified how the Sunday funnies served as a proving ground for the narrative and graphic techniques that would shape the emerging comic book medium.