Alphonse and Gaston in Europe—They Kiss the Blarney Stone

This six-panel Sunday strip follows two French dandies on a comic European tour, culminating at Ireland's Blarney Stone. The narrative unfolds through sequential panels with speech balloons carrying the characters' dialogue and internal monologue. Each panel advances the gag through physical comedy and character interaction: the men's exaggerated politeness creates escalating complications as they attempt to kiss the famous stone, only to tumble, collide, and blame each other for mishaps. The strip exemplifies early newspaper comic conventions—recurring protagonists, sight gags dependent on visual exaggeration, and the episodic structure that made Sunday comics a fixture of American dailies. The artist's bold linework and caricature style helped establish comics as a distinct visual medium separate from editorial illustration.