Alice and Mickey are so Naughty

This three-panel Sunday strip follows two mischievous children through escalating domestic chaos. The first panel establishes their quiet scheme; the second shows an adult's discovery and mild rebuke; the third delivers the payoff as water floods from a faucet, consequences arriving in real time. The strip employs the visual syntax that newspaper comics pioneered: sequential panels advancing a narrative, speech balloons indicating dialogue, and recurring child characters whose antics drive the gag. Early newspaper strips like this one established the formal language that would define comic art—discrete frames, expressive line work, and comedic timing translated into the static image.