Modish Mitzi

Jay V. Jay's *Modish Mitzi* follows a fashionable young woman navigating urban life through shopping, romance, and social encounters. This Sunday strip demonstrates the visual conventions that defined 1920s newspaper comics: sequential panels with profiles and close-ups, speech balloons anchoring dialogue, and repeating characters in episodic narratives. The strip's focus on clothing and consumer culture reflects the period's fascination with modernity and female independence. Like contemporaries in the Sunday funny pages, *Modish Mitzi* helped establish the comic strip as a vehicle for humor about everyday life, relying on readers' familiarity with character types and social situations to drive its gags forward across multiple panels.