Fluffy Ruffles

A Sunday newspaper strip featuring Fluffy Ruffles and her social circle. The narrative follows Fluffy's visit to a hospital to comfort Joe Troddles, a poor boy suffering from fever. The strip demonstrates the visual conventions emerging in early comic strips: sequential panels, speech balloons carrying dialogue and narrative verse, and recurring characters in domestic and public settings. Multiple illustration styles—from intimate bedroom scenes to crowded hospital wards—show the artist's range in depicting both intimate emotion and social comedy across a full page layout.