Life's Little Events

James Montgomery Flagg's *Life's Little Events* comic strip ran in newspapers as a single-panel gag series, each installment a self-contained domestic or social scene. Here, "The First Gray Hair" captures a woman examining her reflection with dismay—a common anxiety subject of the period. Flagg's bold ink line and cross-hatching technique were standard in newspaper comics of the 1910s, when Sunday pages and daily strips served as the primary format for sequential art before the comic book industry emerged in the 1930s. The recurring cast of characters, speech balloons, and visual punchlines established narrative conventions that would define the medium for decades.