Alice's Adventures in Funnyland

This Sunday newspaper strip follows Alice and Mickey Finn as they attempt to drown Brian Boru, the Duchess's cat, in a bag—a scheme that backfires spectacularly. Across six panels, the action escalates from planning to slapstick chaos, with the Duchess's laughter punctuating each mishap. The strip employs the visual conventions that defined early newspaper comics: sequential panels with speech balloons, recurring characters, and sight gags driven by physical comedy. Published in the Sunday supplements that preceded the modern comic book, strips like this established the grammar of panel-to-panel narrative and character continuity that would become fundamental to the medium.