The Adventures of Kitty Cobb by James Montgomery Flagg

James Montgomery Flagg's *Kitty Cobb* was a serial Sunday newspaper strip that followed a young woman's escapades through episodic narratives told in pictures. This panel, "Her First Bathing Suit," shows the visual conventions that defined early comic strips: multiple figures in sequential action, expressive pen linework, and dialogue anchored beneath scenes. Flagg employed the recurring-character formula that made newspaper comics viable as both daily entertainment and ongoing narratives. Working during the medium's formative years, Flagg helped establish the vocabulary of panel composition and figure drawing that shaped commercial comic art in the twentieth century.