Here's a precursor to Gary Larson: an illustration from a 1918 issue of Life magazine.  The caption reads: "Fra Ignatius has a God-given gift for caricature."

Here's a precursor to the classic The Lion in Winter, in which Eleanor of Aquitaine says, on Christmas day, "Of course he has a knife; he always has a knife; we all have knives!  It's 1183 and we're barbarians!"  This will also be of interest: The Collected Lost Meanings of Christmas.

Orson Welles' Lady from Shanghai famously features a shootout in a hall of mirrors.  A 1901 issue of Puck shows a gunslinger using his looking-glass reflections as decoys.

Our own adventure in a cracked hall of mirrors is captured on video.

"Everywhere, all the time, a barrage of scrambled images assaults us -- disjointed scenes, outlandish mergers. ... But by now we have little trouble reading or understanding this new visual lingo. ... We have already had our homework done for us by Picasso." —Life, "The Power of Picasso," Dec. 27 1968

One hundred years earlier, a proto-Picasso debuted in Punch (1860).