Alice's Adventures in Funnyland

This Sunday strip adapts Lewis Carroll's *Alice in Wonderland* for the newspaper comics page, pairing the literary heroine with Mickey, a recurring character from the era's expanding cast of animal and human protagonists. The six-panel layout demonstrates the visual conventions emerging in early 1900s newspaper comics: sequential panels advancing a narrative, speech balloons anchoring dialogue, and varied panel sizes to control pacing and emphasis. The Duchess's warnings about bears, Mickey's mishaps with sandwiches, and Alice's playful interactions establish humor through character interaction and slapstick situations. Such literary adaptations and character-driven narratives in the Sunday funnies helped establish comics as a distinct medium, distinct from both illustration and text-based storytelling, and directly preceded the formatted comic books of the 1930s.