Uncle Wiggily
TonyMyers1@aol.com
Sat, 28 Nov 1998 13:39:40 -0500 (EST)
I've just recently discovered that Uncle Wiggily was a cartoon character. From
about the turn of the century until 1925 it was a comic strip drawn by Lansing
Cambell and written by Howard Garris. After that it became a series of
children's books, apparently just done by Garris. These were being done at
least until 1939. It's been described as similar to Winnie the Pooh and Pogo.
There were some dolls made too.
Uncle Wiggily was a rabbit.
Has anyone heard more about this and do you have any ideas on why the
cartoons/stories were important enough to Salinger that he would work the name
into a title of his stories. Also, any idea what the plot of the
books/cartoons might have been like?