Alice Plays a Joke on the Duchess

This Sunday comic strip adapts Lewis Carroll's *Alice's Adventures in Wonderland* into sequential panels, following Alice's encounter with the Duchess and her pig-child. The six-panel layout demonstrates early newspaper comic conventions: speech balloons, varied panel sizes for pacing, and slapstick action culminating in a visual gag. The artist employs bold line work and dramatic blacks to create readable images at small reproduction size. By the turn of the century, Sunday newspaper pages offered artists freedom to experiment with narrative sequencing and visual storytelling. These strips, alongside their daily counterparts, established the visual vocabulary that would define comic art: panel borders, captions, and recurring characters that readers followed week to week.