The Duchess Finds She Is a Jumper

This four-panel strip adapts Lewis Carroll's *Alice's Adventures in Wonderland*, transforming the literary Duchess into a comic character who literally jumps. The sequence demonstrates early newspaper comics' visual syntax: sequential panels, speech balloons, and escalating physical comedy. The Duchess bounds higher with each panel while her attendant struggles below, culminating in her disappearance into the sky. The style—heavy blacks, expressive figures, simplified backgrounds—typifies Sunday supplement comics of the 1900s, when newspaper strips began developing the narrative and visual conventions that would define the medium for decades. Recurring characters and fantastical premises like this established the foundations for modern comic art.