Alice's Adventures in Funnyland

This Sunday comic strip adapts Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland for the newspaper page, demonstrating how early comics translated literary sources into sequential visual narrative. The six-panel layout uses speech balloons and detailed cross-hatching to render Alice's dream encounters with fantastical characters—here, Santa Claus and the Man in the Moon. The strip exemplifies the visual conventions emerging in American newspapers around 1900: recurring characters, panel-to-panel progression, and dialogue driving the action. Early Sunday funnies like this established the formal vocabulary—borders, balloons, expressions—that would define comic strips and eventually comic books as distinct media.