Little Alice Makes Some Weather for the Duchess

This Sunday newspaper strip adapts Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland through sequential panels and speech balloons—the visual conventions that define early comic strips. Alice creates rain and snow indoors, delighting the Duchess and shocking servants with impossible weather. The strip uses six panels of varying sizes to pace gags and action, with dialogue integrated into white balloons. Newspaper comic sections like this one established the grammar of sequential art: recurring characters, narrative flow across panels, and coordination of image and text. These Sunday supplements were the direct precursors to the comic book format, training readers in visual storytelling and creating markets for reprinted strips in bound collections.