Modish Mitzi

Jay V. Jay's *Modish Mitzi* follows a fashionable young woman navigating style advice and social situations. The strip uses the visual conventions that defined 1920s newspaper comics: multiple panels with speech balloons, exaggerated line work, and recurring female characters offering competing opinions on dress, manners, and propriety. Each panel presents a different viewpoint on seasonal fashion and etiquette, creating humor through contradiction. The strip exemplifies how Sunday newspaper comics combined fashion commentary with domestic comedy, building audience loyalty through relatable scenarios. Jay V. Jay's clean pen style and clear panel progression reflect the growing sophistication of comic strip design that would influence the graphic language of comic books to come.