Alice's Adventures in Funnyland: Alice Persuades the Carpenter to Play Football

This Sunday strip adapts Lewis Carroll's *Alice* characters into a visual narrative spanning four panels. Alice, dressed in striped stockings, encounters the Carpenter and negotiates a football game through pantomime and gesture. The artist uses sequential paneling, speech balloons, and expressive postures to propel the story forward—visual techniques emerging from newspaper comics' nascent grammar. Published in the Sunday Tribune at the medium's formative moment, when newspaper pages became the primary venue for comic narratives. The recurring Alice character and episodic adventures exemplify how newspaper strips created sustained fictional worlds, anticipating the collected comic books that would follow.