Meet the Misses

Jack Wilhelm's *Meet the Misses* presents a Sunday page of romantic comedy in the graphic language that newspapers had established by the late 1920s. Multiple panels advance separate narratives—a woman reminiscing about a suitor, a couple's quarrel near a cityscape, two men recruiting women for an evening out. Speech balloons carry dialogue across the page; close framing isolates characters' reactions. The strip cycles through familiar scenarios: missed connections, misunderstandings, social courtship. Wilhelm's ink line is brisk and gestural, typical of newspaper comic work. By this era, the Sunday funny papers had become the primary venue for visual narrative experimentation, establishing the panel-based grammar and character continuity that would define comic books within the decade.