From the exhibition
Uncle Wiggily's Adventures
· April 3, 1921

This Sunday page follows Uncle Wiggily, an anthropomorphic rabbit protagonist, through a series of domestic misadventures during a rainstorm. Illustrated by Lang Campbell with text by Howard R. Garis, the strip employs nine sequential panels to chart the rabbit's attempts to manage household chaos—leaking roofs, flooded rooms, and general calamity. The visual storytelling relies on clear panel borders, expressive silhouettes, and recurring cast members to sustain narrative continuity. Such newspaper comic strips of the 1920s established the formal grammar of sequential art: panel-to-panel progression, speech balloons, and character consistency that would become foundational to the emerging comic book medium.
Public domain, restored and presented by comicbooks.com public-domain