Alice Takes a Snap Shot at the Cook

This Sunday comic strip adapts Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland for the newspaper page, using the visual vocabulary that defined early comics: bordered panels, speech balloons, and sequential action. Alice attempts to photograph the Cook with a large-format camera while the Cheshire Cat observes. The strip's six-panel grid guides readers through a comedic sequence—filling the camera with water, loading the plate, and the inevitable catastrophe. The character design and pen-and-ink linework are typical of turn-of-the-century newspaper illustration, when comic strips were becoming a standard Sunday feature, laying groundwork for the medium's visual language.