Spring Suggestions for A.E.F Millinery

This Sunday comics page offers military headgear designs for the American Expeditionary Forces during World War I. Using recurring character types—Engineers, Tanks, Aero, Artillery, Marines—the artist presents humorous helmet and hat variations suited to each branch. The layout combines explanatory text boxes with caricatured soldier heads, each crowned with absurdist millinery: gas masks, propellers, mechanical contraptions, and elaborate ornamentation. The style descends from newspaper comic tradition: distinct panels, speech balloons, exaggerated features, and visual puns. Such pages, published in dailies and Sunday editions, functioned as both entertainment and propaganda, reaching millions of readers while sustaining the sequential art vocabulary that would define the comic book form.