Ethel: The Lady from Paris

This single-panel comic depicts Ethel, a fashionable Parisian woman, consulting a hand mirror while practicing witchcraft at her vanity table. The composition showcases the ornate Art Deco style typical of 1920s newspaper comics, with elaborate costume detail, decorative furnishings, and a small umbrella-carrying figure on the left. The gag—combining modern female vanity with supernatural themes—relies on visual wit rather than sequential narrative. Such single-panel gag strips and illustrated comic features populated newspaper Sunday pages during the 1920s, establishing the visual conventions of layout, proportion, and caricatured expression that would define the emerging comic strip medium alongside serialized adventure strips.