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Alice's Adventures in Funnyland

· Sunday, November 17, 1901

Alice's Adventures in Funnyland
This Sunday page follows Alice through a fantastical landscape populated by anthropomorphic animals and grotesque figures. The strip uses sequential panels with speech balloons to track Alice's encounters—a giraffe, camel, and ostrich feature prominently—as she moves through episodic gags. The artist employs exaggerated anatomy and slapstick action typical of early 1900s newspaper comics. Like contemporary strips, *Alice's Adventures in Funnyland* demonstrates the visual vocabulary emerging in Sunday supplements: panel borders, consistent character design, and word-image integration that would become foundational to comic book language. Newspaper comics of this era, distributed nationally, established the grammar of modern sequential art before the first comic books appeared.

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