The Duchess Treats the Copper

This Sunday strip adapts Lewis Carroll's *Alice in Wonderland*, following Alice's encounter with the Duchess and her kitchen. The six-panel layout moves from street scene through interior spaces, using sequential art to develop narrative and visual gags—a child's confusion, the Duchess's absurd hospitality, escalating chaos. The artist employs speech balloons, varied panel sizes, and cross-hatching to establish mood and character. Sunday newspaper comics of this era pioneered the visual vocabulary that would define the medium: recurring characters, panel-to-panel continuity, and coordinated text-and-image storytelling. Literary adaptations like this one demonstrated that comics could sustain complex narratives while remaining accessible to general audiences.