Alice's Adventures in Funnyland

This Sunday comic strip follows a young girl and her nurse through absurdist domestic scenes, each panel advancing a simple narrative through sequential panels and speech balloons. The artist employs expressive linework and visual repetition—the nurse's exaggerated silhouette anchors each scene—to build humor through visual gags and character interaction. Early newspaper comics like this one established the formal vocabulary of the medium: bordered panels, dialogue in balloons, and recurring characters. Sunday strips of this era, printed in color supplement sections, represented the commercial birth of sequential art in America, preceding comic books by decades and pioneering the visual syntax that would define the form.