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Uncle Wiggily's Adventures

· Sunday, October 25, 1925

Uncle Wiggily's Adventures
A nine-panel Sunday strip featuring Uncle Wiggily, an anthropomorphic rabbit character navigating practical misadventures with a cart of vegetables. The narrative unfolds through sequential panels: Wiggily attempts to lower a heavy load down a hill, loses control, crashes, and later encounters other animal characters who offer assistance and advice. The strip exemplifies the newspaper comic's essential visual vocabulary—panel borders, speech balloons, recurring protagonist, and sight gags—that became foundational to the emerging comic book medium. Drawn in bold black line with cross-hatched shading, the strip demonstrates the illustrative clarity and physical comedy that defined early-twentieth-century newspaper humor pages.

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