Alphonse and Gaston in India

This Sunday comic strip follows two French gentlemen and their friend Leon through a comedic adventure in India involving a juggling idol. The strip demonstrates key innovations of early newspaper comics: sequential panels advancing a narrative, speech balloons carrying dialogue, and recurring characters in absurd situations. The visual gags—confusion over who drinks first, encounters with a mechanical idol—rely on slapstick and wordplay typical of the era's humor. The strip exemplifies how newspaper comics evolved from single-panel gags into multi-panel stories with character consistency, establishing visual conventions that became fundamental to comic books.