Meet the Misses!

Jack Wilhelm's "Meet the Misses!" exemplifies the Sunday newspaper comic strip format that flourished in the 1920s. The strip uses sequential panel layout, speech balloons, and recurring characters to develop brief comedic scenarios. Here, romantic entanglements unfold across multiple scenes: a woman and man converse, couples interact beneath flowering vines, a police officer observes a motorcycle incident, and domestic quarrels erupt. Wilhelm employs cross-hatching and expressive linework typical of the era's illustration style. By the 1920s, newspaper comics had established the visual vocabulary—panels, captions, thought balloons—that would define comic books. Sunday strips like this reached millions of readers and provided crucial training ground for artists developing sequential narrative techniques.