Modish Mitzi

A Sunday newspaper comic strip following the fashion-conscious exploits of its titular character. The strip employs the visual conventions that defined early comics: multiple panels advancing a linear narrative, speech balloons, and ink-line figure drawing. This installment charts the week's fluctuating hemlines—a recurring motif—through everyday scenarios and evening wear. The strip's humor derives from fashion absurdity and social observation, rendered in the economical linework typical of newspaper comics of the 1920s. Such strips populated the Sunday funny pages alongside adventure serials and gag comics, establishing the foundational vocabulary of sequential art that would evolve into the modern comic book.