Alphonse and Gaston Name Their Automobile

This Sunday comic strip follows the French immigrant characters Alphonse and Gaston as they attempt to name their new automobile. The narrative unfolds across six panels, moving from their initial discussion through increasingly chaotic consequences—explosions, crashes, and mayhem—as their polite, accident-prone antics spiral outward. The strip exemplifies early newspaper comics' visual storytelling: sequential panels, speech balloons, and a recurring duo whose humor derives from exaggerated physical comedy and character-driven predicaments. Published during the Sunday funnies boom, this strip represents the medium's invention of visual grammar that would define comic books for generations.