Modish Mitzi

*Modish Mitzi* follows a fashionable young woman navigating social occasions and wardrobe decisions. This Sunday strip displays the visual vocabulary that newspaper comics were establishing in the 1920s: sequential panels with speech balloons, a recurring protagonist, and gag-driven narrative flow. The strip's focus on contemporary dress and etiquette reflects the period's fascination with modern urban life. By the mid-1920s, newspaper comic strips had become a dominant form of mass entertainment, appearing daily and Sunday across America and establishing conventions—panel borders, word balloons, character consistency—that would define comics as a medium.