There Is a Flood in the Duchess' Kitchen: Alice Is There, Too

This Sunday newspaper strip adapts Lewis Carroll's *Alice's Adventures in Wonderland* for the comics page, employing the visual conventions that defined early newspaper cartooning: sequential panels, speech balloons, and slapstick action. The Duchess and her companions navigate an indoor flood through six panels, each advancing the gag through escalating chaos and exaggerated physical comedy. The strip demonstrates how turn-of-the-century cartoonists translated literary characters into recurring figures suited to weekly serialization, establishing the narrative rhythm that would define both the newspaper funny pages and the emerging comic book format. Dense crosshatching and rapid linework convey motion and water spray, techniques inherited from nineteenth-century illustration.