Scans of The Wiggle Much, esoteric newspaper cartoon from 1910

It’s not exactly “The Family Circus” or “Garfield” (or “The Voynich Manuscript”) but the drawings have a certain awkward charm. I realize the strip is 100 years old, but the rhyming storytelling is pretty darn obnoxious.

Usually when anyone puts any sort of old art on the Web, they tend to always clean up the scans. These strips are full of what looks like microfilm mold. As the strip apparently only ran three months, it seems more like it’s some sort of experiment gone wrong or an attempt to cash in on the success of Winsor McCay’s perfect and poetic “Little Nemo” (which is about 10,000 times better than this) - also, I disagree that this is an “esoteric” strip…pre-radio/TV/cinema/Internet human citizens had direct contact with their imaginations and (generally-speaking) enjoyed pseudo-imaginative, poorly-rhymed frolics in their Sunday comics…and comics are always exoteric.

I wonder if PIXAR has taken out an option on Wiggle Much?
John Goodman could do Much’s voice

The “ABOUT” link is entirely unhelpful - - I say not much ado about Wiggle Much