Sweet Little Alice Helps the Duchess with Her Basket

This Chicago Sunday Tribune comic strip follows Alice through a sequence of six panels as she assists a duchess with her overflowing laundry basket. The narrative unfolds through dialogue and visual gags: a boy stuck in a tree, a basket growing heavier with each panel, spilled contents, and Alice's escalating efforts to contain the chaos. The strip demonstrates early comic page conventions—sequential panels, speech balloons, and a recurring child protagonist—that would become foundational to the medium. Published in newspaper Sunday supplements, such strips were among the first serialized visual narratives to establish the visual grammar of modern comics.