From the exhibition
Modish Mitzi
· September 2, 1925
A Sunday newspaper comic strip by Jay V. Jay featuring Mitzi, a modern young woman navigating fashion, social mores, and romantic entanglements. The four-panel layout progresses through a conversation about art and aesthetic taste, with Mitzi's friends offering competing opinions on what constitutes good design. The strip employs the visual conventions that defined newspaper comics of the 1920s: bold black linework, speech balloons, and sequential panel narration. Recurring characters like Adelaide and Eleanor develop personality through dialogue and reaction. *Modish Mitzi* exemplifies the daily strip format that evolved from earlier Sunday supplements, establishing the visual grammar and character-driven humor that would become foundational to American comic books.
Public domain, restored and presented by comicbooks.com public-domain
