Alice and the Duchess Return from the Moon

This Sunday page adapts Lewis Carroll's Alice through the visual language pioneered by newspaper comics: sequential panels, speech balloons, and recurring characters established visual storytelling conventions that shaped the medium. The six-panel layout guides readers through Alice and the Duchess's lunar adventure and return to Earth. Early comic strips like this one established the grammar—panel borders, word placement, character consistency—that became foundational to comic books. Published during the Sunday newspaper boom when color pages and serialized strips reached millions of readers, these strips were collected and reprinted, forming the direct lineage to comic book publishing.