Meet the Misses

Jack Wilhelm's *Meet the Misses* exemplifies the Sunday newspaper comic strip format of the late 1920s. The strip follows multiple female characters through domestic and social situations, employing sequential panels with speech balloons to advance independent gags. Wilhelm uses cross-hatching and dynamic linework typical of the era's newspaper illustration. The layout—mixing full-width establishing panels with smaller comic frames—became standard practice in Sunday comics, where artists balanced single-gag humor with narrative scope. These newspaper strips, distributed nationally through syndication, established the visual conventions that would define American comics: recurring characters, panel grammar, and the interplay of image and text that later comics adapted into booklet form.