Alice's Adventures in Funnyland

This six-panel Sunday strip uses sequential narrative to build a visual gag: Little Alice attempts a sleighing joke that progressively fails across the panels. The composition—stable establishing shots that shift perspective as the sled and horses move through a snowy landscape—demonstrates the visual vocabulary emerging in newspaper comics: panel borders directing reader attention, character placement signaling action and consequence, and repetition with variation to structure comedy. The strip exemplifies how early-1900s Sunday pages adapted narrative techniques from sequential art to the newspaper format, establishing conventions that would define comic strips and eventually comic books. Recurring characters in familiar settings became the engine of daily readership.