Alice's New Teeter Board

This Sunday comic employs the visual conventions emerging from newspaper strips in the early 1900s: multiple panels arranged left-to-right, speech balloons advancing narrative, and a recurring child protagonist in escalating physical comedy. The four-panel sequence shows Alice and companions on a makeshift seesaw, the gag building from setup through consequence—a structural approach inherited from vaudeville but rendered through sequential images. Early newspaper comics like this established the grammar later standardized in comic books: panel borders, varied viewpoints, and dialogue integrated with action. The style combines Victorian-era illustration with the graphic economy necessary for daily reproduction.