Alphonse and Gaston Go Tiger Hunting in India

This Sunday page follows two French gentlemen on an absurd colonial adventure, their exaggerated politeness clashing with tiger hunting chaos. The strip uses sequential panels, speech balloons, and escalating physical comedy—hallmarks of early newspaper comics. Six panels build from preparation through disaster, with small figures and environmental detail filling each frame. The recurring characters Alphonse and Gaston, known for their mutual deference ("After you!" / "No, after *you*!"), anchor the humor through personality-driven mayhem. Sunday comics of this era were laboratories for visual storytelling: artists developed the panel grid, integrated text and image, and created characters readers followed across decades. This strip exemplifies how newspaper comics became the direct precursor to the comic book form.