Alice and the Duchess Go After Spring Flowers

This Sunday comic strip adapts Lewis Carroll's Alice characters into a slapstick narrative. The Duchess and young Alice pursue cows and spring flowers across open fields in six sequential panels, each advancing the plot through action and dialogue. The strip employs the visual vocabulary that would define early comics: rectangular panels arranged in grid formation, speech balloons containing character dialogue, and recurring characters in a continuous storyline. Published in the newspaper supplement format, such strips established the foundational grammar of sequential art—the panel-to-panel progression that guides reader comprehension across time and space. The loose, energetic line work and exaggerated proportions of the figures reflect the cartooning style that emerged from newspaper illustration traditions in the 1890s-1900s.