Alice's Adventures in Funnyland

This Sunday comic strip demonstrates the visual conventions that shaped early newspaper comics: sequential panels with speech balloons, recurring characters, and physical comedy sustained across multiple frames. The narrative follows a simple premise—Dinny's snoring disturbs the Duchess—through escalating slapstick: screens fail to muffle sound, a chair-flinging confrontation erupts, and the characters tumble into chaos. The strip employs exaggerated postures and expressions to convey action and emotion across distance, techniques essential to comics' wordless storytelling. Published in newspapers during the medium's formative decade, such strips established the grammar of panel layouts, character consistency, and gag construction that would define both newspaper comics and the emerging comic book format.