Militant Mary

This single-panel comic strip features a character declaring her refusal to wear a wristwatch, despite acknowledging its practicality. Her reasoning—that she is "Time's slave anyway"—becomes the punchline, rejecting the notion that a timepiece would further constrain her freedom. The strip exemplifies the visual conventions established by early newspaper comics: a bordered panel, speech balloon dialogue, and a simply drawn figure rendered in bold black lines. The work captures a moment when comic strips appeared daily and Sunday in newspapers nationwide, establishing recurring characters and visual language that would directly influence the emerging comic book medium.