Alphonse and Gaston

This Sunday strip follows two French gentlemen meeting their Parisian friend Leon at the pier. The six-panel sequence employs the visual conventions that became standard in newspaper comics: sequential panels, speech balloons, and physical comedy escalating across the page. Alphonse and Gaston's exaggerated politeness—each insisting the other go first—creates a slapstick premise that unfolds through gesture and dialogue. The strip's clean linework and character consistency reflect the artistic innovations of early 1900s newspaper cartooning, when Sunday supplements began serializing humor through recurring characters and panel-based storytelling, establishing techniques that would define the comic strip medium.