Modish Mitzi

A Sunday newspaper comic strip by Jay V. Jay following the romantic entanglements of Mitzi and her suitors. Six panels flow left to right, employing speech balloons and clear sequential narration—visual conventions inherited from European comic traditions but now standard in American newspaper comics. The Goofer explains his suit to Mitzi while Bill appears with a metal brooch; Mitzi examines it in the laboratory and discovers its chemical composition. When Bill returns, she responds with characteristic wit. The strip trades in the comic situations and character types—the scheming suitor, the clever heroine, the romantic rival—that sustained the Sunday funny pages and their daily counterparts, which by the 1920s had become a primary laboratory for the visual grammar of modern sequential art.