Alice's Adventures in Funnyland

This Sunday newspaper comic strip follows Alice and the Duchess through a chaotic tea party. The six-panel layout tracks the action across a domestic interior, employing sequential art conventions—distinct frames, speech balloons, and consistent character design—that were becoming standard in newspaper comics at the turn of the century. The humor derives from physical comedy and visual gags: a mechanical device, slapstick tumbles, and Alice locked outside while chaos erupts within. The artist uses line work and crosshatching for texture and depth, establishing the visual vocabulary that would define early comic strips in American newspapers and eventually influence the comic book medium itself.