Alice Reads the Papers to the Duchess

This Sunday newspaper comic adapts Lewis Carroll's *Alice's Adventures in Wonderland*, translating the literary classic into sequential art. The strip demonstrates early comic storytelling conventions: panel borders dividing action, speech balloons anchoring dialogue, and repeated characters across frames. Alice, reading official papers aloud, provokes the Duchess's escalating fury—a six-panel narrative arc building from curiosity to violent outrage. The artist captures physical comedy through exaggerated poses and facial expressions, techniques inherited from vaudeville and newspaper illustration. Such literary adaptations in the Sunday funnies helped establish comics as a distinct medium, bridging nineteenth-century wood-engraved serials and the modern comic book form that would emerge within the decade.