From the exhibition
Alice's Adventures in Funnyland
· October 25, 1903

This Sunday newspaper strip adapts Lewis Carroll's *Alice in Wonderland* for comic form, following a small girl through encounters with eccentric adults. The artist employs sequential panels with speech balloons to convey narrative and humor across six frames. Each panel isolates a distinct moment—the Duchess's offhand remarks, her escalating threats with a spoon, the chaotic intervention of a policeman—building comedy through visual progression and dialogue. The strip demonstrates how early newspaper comics inherited theatrical staging and literary adaptation while developing a new visual language of panel borders, word placement, and expressive caricature. Newspaper Sunday pages like this were foundational to comic art's emergence as a medium.
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