Scans of The Wiggle Much, esoteric newspaper cartoon from 1910

I was more complaining that it seems terrible.

When my grandmother died a few years ago, and her considerable possessions were dispersed among family and friends, the one thing I wanted to remember her by was a gigantic coffee table book of newspaper comics. I’d spent hours poring over that thing as a kid. Full-size, full-color reproductions from an era when Sunday strips covered an entire page of broadsheet…Little Nemo, Krazy Kat, the Katzenjammer Kids, plus huge runs of adventure strips like Popeye, Mickey Mouse, Wash and Easy. Beautiful stuff, well deserving of reproduction and remembrance.

“The Wiggle-Much” wasn’t in there, with good reason.