From the exhibition
Uncle Wiggily's Adventures
· March 20, 1921

This Sunday strip follows Uncle Wiggily, a rabbit gentleman, and Nurse Jane Fuzzy Wuzzy through domestic mishaps and fantastical adventures. The narrative unfolds across nine panels in a grid layout, using speech balloons and sequential art to build humor and plot. Characters include animal companions and child visitors, allowing the strip to blend household comedy with gentle fantasy. The strip exemplifies the newspaper Sunday page format that emerged in the early twentieth century—a space where artists developed the visual grammar of comics: panel borders that control pacing, dialogue balloons that anchor character voice, and recurring characters that built reader loyalty across installments.
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