From the exhibition
Modish Mitzi
· September 17, 1925

This Sunday strip follows a young woman navigating fashion accessories and social etiquette. The comic employs the visual conventions that defined newspaper comics: sequential panels, close-up and full-figure shots, dialogue in speech balloons, and a recurring protagonist. The strip's humor derives from practical fashion advice—here, proper glove selection and care—presented through everyday social situations. Artist Jay V. Jay uses expressive line work and careful staging to move readers through the narrative, techniques central to the visual language that evolved from newspaper comics into the comic book medium.
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