From the exhibition
Alice's Adventures in Funnyland
· February 9, 1902

This Sunday newspaper strip adapts Lewis Carroll's *Alice in Wonderland* into sequential visual narrative. Six panels track Alice and Mickey as they skate with the Duchess, who tumbles across the ice in slapstick progression. The strip employs the visual grammar emerging in early newspaper comics: panel borders separate moments, speech balloons carry dialogue, and repeated characters anchor the narrative across scenes. The Duchess's size remains consistent yet exaggerated throughout, her bulk a recurring gag device. This work exemplifies how newspaper Sunday pages and dailies translated literary source material into the sequential art form that would define the comic book medium.
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