Meet the Misses

Jack Wilhelm's *Meet the Misses* exemplifies the visual storytelling that emerged in newspaper Sunday comics during the 1920s. The strip employs sequential panels, speech balloons, and recurring female characters in comedic situations—a format that directly influenced the development of comic books. Wilhelm's ink work demonstrates the period's graphic economy: crosshatching for shadow and form, dynamic figure poses, and varied panel sizes to control pacing. The strip navigates domestic and social humor through character interaction, reflecting how newspaper comics served as a training ground for the visual language that would define the medium for decades to come.