Uncle Wiggily's Adventures

A six-panel Sunday strip by Howard R. Garis featuring the rabbit character Uncle Wiggily in a hunting adventure around Thanksgiving. The narrative follows a familiar comic structure: setup (hunting season opens), escalating action (pursuit and mishap), and comedic resolution. Speech balloons advance plot and character voice; panel borders guide sequential reading. By the 1920s, the newspaper comic strip had become a standardized medium with recurring characters, consistent visual style, and weekly audience expectations. Uncle Wiggily, originating in prose stories, exemplifies how popular literary characters migrated to newspaper comics, expanding their reach and establishing the visual vocabulary that would define the emerging comic book form.