Alice Helps Measure the Duchess for Gown

This Sunday comic adapts Lewis Carroll's *Alice's Adventures in Wonderland*, transforming literature into sequential visual narrative. Six panels follow Alice and companions as they measure the Duchess—a scenario generating humor through slapstick and absurdist dialogue rendered across distinct frames. The artist employs period conventions: bold ink outlines, speech balloons, varied panel sizes to pace action, and recurring characters recognizable across installments. Published in newspapers' expanding Sunday supplements, such strips pioneered the visual grammar foundational to comic books: montage, panel sequencing, and character continuity that would define the medium.