Little Alice Makes a Snow Man

This newspaper comic strip follows Little Alice through six sequential panels as she builds a snowman with help from Mickey Flynn and other neighborhood children. The narrative unfolds left to right across the page—a visual structure that became standard in Sunday comics. Alice's interactions with the Duchess, Cooper the Copper, and Mickey establish a recurring cast of characters typical of early comic strips. The artist uses consistent line work and spot blacks to distinguish characters and create depth within domestic and street settings. Speech balloons convey dialogue and advance plot. This strip exemplifies how newspaper comics of the early 1900s—printed in color on Sunday pages and in black-and-white dailies—developed the visual grammar of panel sequences, character consistency, and sequential narrative that would define the medium.