Alice Gives a Taffy Pull

This Sunday newspaper strip adapts Lewis Carroll's Alice character into a domestic comedy of manners. Sequential panels show Alice orchestrating a taffy-pulling party with a group of children and the Duchess, escalating from orderly social gathering to physical chaos as the taffy stretches across the room. The strip employs the visual vocabulary established by newspaper comics of the 1890s: multiple panels arranged in grid format, speech balloons for dialogue, and recurring characters. The exaggerated poses and slapstick timing demonstrate how early comics borrowed timing techniques from vaudeville and print illustration, translating them into the rhythmic language of sequential art that would define the medium.