Modish Mitzi

This Sunday strip follows Dora's fashion adventure as she pursues cretonne—a printed cotton fabric—for a high-society ensemble. Across four panels, the narrative unfolds through speech balloons and sequential art: Dora consults a pattern, hunts for the material at a shop, models the finished cretonne outfit, and proudly displays her wardrobe. The strip exemplifies early comic page design, with recurring character types and visual gags anchored in domestic consumer culture. Artist Jay V. Jay employs clean line work and panel borders typical of 1920s newspaper comics, a format that established the visual vocabulary later adopted by comic books.