Alice's Adventures in Funnyland

This Sunday newspaper strip follows young Alice and her caretaker through domestic mishaps and physical comedy. The six-panel layout uses speech balloons and sequential action to build gags: a reading lesson turns into slapstick when a potted plant overturns, soaking the Duchess. The strip exemplifies early newspaper comic conventions—recurring child protagonist, exaggerated expressions, visual punchlines—that emerged from the Sunday supplement boom of the 1890s. Artists of this era established the visual grammar of comics: panel borders to control time and action, word balloons anchored to speakers, and the repetition of characters across installments. Such strips were the direct precursors to the comic book format, proving that sequential art could sustain reader interest across multiple panels and episodes.