Modish Mitzi

Jay V. Jay's fashion comic follows Mitzi through her weekly wardrobe decisions. This Sunday strip demonstrates the visual conventions that shaped early comics: sequential panels advancing a narrative, speech balloons carrying dialogue and internal monologue, and a recurring female character anchoring readers' interest. The strip's subject—daytime versus evening dress codes—reflects the era's preoccupation with social propriety and fashion consumption. Four-panel layout and profile-heavy character work were standard for newspaper comics of the 1920s, when Sunday funnies pages pioneered the sequential art form that would eventually define the comic book medium.