From the exhibition
Uncle Wiggily's Adventures
· Sunday, November 1, 1925

This Sunday page from *Uncle Wiggily's Adventures* showcases the strip's energetic slapstick comedy and visual inventiveness. The narrative follows Uncle Wiggily's encounter with a visitor claiming to be his South American nephew—revealed as an impostor wearing a false face. The strip employs the full toolkit of newspaper comic storytelling: sequential panels building dramatic tension, speech balloons carrying dialogue and sound effects, and exaggerated character expressions. Artist Lang Campbell constructs the gag through escalating physical comedy, chases, and the recurring theme of mistaken identity. By 1925, newspaper comic strips had established the visual grammar—panel borders, varied framing, integrated text—that would define the medium for decades. *Uncle Wiggily* represented popular entertainment aimed at Sunday family readers, combining adventure, humor, and accessible illustration.
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