Oh! Margy!

Created by John Held, Jr., *Oh! Margy!* exemplifies the Jazz Age flapper comic strip. This Sunday page deploys the formal vocabulary of newspaper comics: sequential panels with speech balloons, recurring characters, and a three-act gag structure. The left panels establish historical contrast (courtship customs), the center develops romantic complications, and the right panel delivers the punchline. Held's fluid line work and dynamic figure drawing were hallmarks of 1920s comic art. The strip captures period social humor while demonstrating how newspaper comics had evolved into a distinct visual medium with its own narrative conventions—a direct ancestor to the comic book form.