Alice Hears a Ghost Story

This Sunday strip follows Alice and her companions as they react to a ghost tale told in the dark. The four-panel structure employs sequential visual storytelling: setup, escalating tension, supernatural appearance, and chaotic punchline. The artist uses exaggerated expressions and body language to convey fear and surprise, with bold black areas creating dramatic shadow and contrast. Speech balloons advance the narrative while visual gags—the characters' shrieking poses, the ghost's sudden emergence, the final scramble—drive the comedy. This strip exemplifies the newspaper comic page's golden age, when Sunday funnies pioneered panel layouts, character consistency, and the visual-verbal grammar that would define modern comics.