Oh! Margy!

This Sunday strip by John Held, Jr. follows Margy's adventures at the zoo, told across six sequential panels. The narrative unfolds left to right: Margy feeds monkeys, admires a leopard in its cage, and laughs at clumsy bears. Held employs the visual conventions that defined newspaper comics—distinct panels, speech balloons, and recurring character types—that shaped the emerging medium. The flapper protagonist and Art Deco styling reflect the 1920s aesthetic, while the comic's straightforward gag structure and reliance on visual action demonstrate how newspaper strips taught readers to interpret sequential narrative through image and text.