Uncle Wiggily's Adventures

Uncle Wiggily, the rabbit gentleman protagonist of this Sunday strip, embarks on a scheme to earn money for a kite by offering to make a kite for Nurse Jane. The narrative unfolds across nine panels with speech balloons, establishing character through dialogue and situation. Created by Howard R. Garis with pictures by Lang Campbell, the strip exemplifies the newspaper comic's visual storytelling: recurring characters, panel-to-panel continuity, and sequential gags. The Sunday page format allowed cartoonists to develop longer narratives and showcase domestic comedy—a staple of early-twentieth-century newspaper comics that directly influenced the structure and conventions of the emerging comic book medium.