Meet the Misses

Jack Wilhelm's *Meet the Misses* appeared in Sunday newspaper comics during the height of the medium's first golden age. The strip follows a rotating cast of young women through romantic and social situations, rendered in Wilhelm's fluid pen line and composed across multiple panels with speech balloons advancing the narrative. The Sunday format allowed for larger, more elaborate layouts—here combining full-width scenes with smaller vignettes. By the 1920s, newspaper comics had established the visual vocabulary still used today: sequential panels, dialogue balloons, character consistency, and sight gags. Wilhelm's work exemplifies how the Sunday page functioned as both entertainment and artistic showcase, reaching millions of readers before comic books collected these strips into bound volumes.