The Duchess Receives Two Distinguished Visitors

This Sunday newspaper strip adapts Lewis Carroll's *Alice's Adventures in Wonderland*, translating the literary fantasy into sequential visual narrative. The artist employs the formal conventions emerging in early 1900s comics: distinct rectangular panels, speech balloons, and a recurring cast of exaggerated characters. The Duchess—rendered in a polka-dotted gown—interacts with Alice and the Cheshire Cat across six panels that unfold action and dialogue from left to right. The composition demonstrates how newspaper comics inherited techniques from Victorian illustration while developing the panel-based grammar that would define the medium. Early adaptations of literary sources for the Sunday funnies helped establish comic strips as a mass medium.