Uncle Wiggily's Adventures

Howard R. Garis's *Uncle Wiggily* strip appeared in newspapers as a Sunday comic featuring the elderly rabbit protagonist and his animal companions—Nurse Jane Fuzzy Wuzzy, Sammie Littletail, and others—navigating misadventures in the forest. Illustrated by Lang Campbell, the strip employs the visual language that defined early newspaper comics: sequential panels arranged in gridded rows, speech balloons conveying dialogue and action, and recurring characters in episodic narratives. The strip's gentle slapstick and talking-animal cast typified popular Sunday-page humor of the 1920s, when newspaper comics served as the direct precursor to the modern comic book form.