Alphonse and Gaston

This Sunday strip follows two elaborately courteous Frenchmen through a slapstick sequence of escalating chaos. The comic employs sequential panels with speech balloons to advance a narrative joke: excessive politeness becomes the engine of physical comedy. Each panel builds on the last, with characters' exaggerated gestures and expressions carrying the gag forward across six frames. The strip exemplifies early newspaper comics' visual grammar—panel borders, word-picture integration, and repeated characters—that established the foundation for modern comic books. The drawing style combines caricature with clear linework, making action and emotion immediately readable across the page.