Alice Helps the Paper Hanger

This Sunday newspaper comic strip adapts Lewis Carroll's Alice for the comics page, casting her as a mischievous child protagonist in domestic chaos. The six-panel sequence uses sequential art conventions—multiple viewpoints, speech balloons, and sight gags—to show Alice's well-intentioned interference with household tasks. The strip exemplifies early 1900s Sunday comics: humor derived from physical slapstick and character reaction, recurring figures, and visual storytelling across connected panels. Newspaper comic strips of this era established the basic vocabulary of comics art that would define the medium for decades, developing from newspaper humor into the foundation of the emerging comic book format.