Militant Mary

This single-panel strip features a determined woman in military dress, armed with what appears to be a noose. The accompanying text outlines her strategy: place a running noose around the throats of men and pull it tighter until women gain voting rights. The cartoon employs direct visual rhetoric and aggressive wordplay typical of suffrage propaganda from the 1910s. Published during the final years before American women won the right to vote, such strips appeared in newspapers alongside traditional comic narratives, demonstrating how the emerging medium of sequential art and recurring characters served political movements and public discourse.