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Little Alice Trifles Again with George the Square Hatter

· February 16, 1902

Little Alice Trifles Again with George the Square Hatter
A six-panel Sunday comic strip featuring Little Alice and George the Square Hatter in a series of domestic misadventures. The narrative progresses linearly across panels: Alice visits George's store, they encounter a customer, a street brawl erupts, and the chaos spreads indoors. The strip employs sequential art conventions—bordered panels, speech balloons, and recurring characters—that were becoming standard in early twentieth-century newspaper comics. The physical comedy and slapstick violence reflect popular vaudeville entertainment adapted for the comics page. This strip exemplifies how newspaper Sunday sections adopted the visual grammar and character-driven storytelling that would define the comic strip as a distinct medium.

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