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Alice Is That Sly

· 1902

Alice Is That Sly
This Sunday page adapts Lewis Carroll's *Alice* into newspaper comic form, following the protagonist through street encounters and domestic scenes rendered in bold black-and-white illustration. The strip employs the emerging visual vocabulary of early comics: multiple panels arranged in grid sequence, speech balloons, and a recurring character navigating episodic situations. Published in the era when Sunday newspaper supplements first began serializing illustrated narratives, the work exemplifies how the funnies evolved from single-panel gags into sequential storytelling. The dense cross-hatching and caricatured figures reflect the period's newspaper illustration style, while panel-to-panel progression establishes cause and effect—the formal grammar that would define the medium.

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