Militant Mary

A single-panel comic strip featuring a determined woman in a long dress and wide-brimmed hat, binoculars in hand. The figure addresses societal concerns head-on: "Of trouble and of want, this world had quite enough BEFORE. Yet now a dozen million men ARE MANUFACTURING MORE!" The strip employs the visual conventions established by newspaper comics—a framed rectangular panel, hand-lettered speech balloon, and simple but expressive line work. Published during World War I, *Militant Mary* exemplifies how the comic strip format, which emerged from the Sunday newspaper pages of the 1890s, became a vehicle for social commentary and political argument alongside entertainment.