Oh! Margy!

John Held, Jr.'s *Oh! Margy!* exemplifies the social comedy strips of the Jazz Age newspaper Sunday page. The strip follows the misadventures of Margy, a young woman navigating modern romance and social rituals. Here, one of her suitors learns an expensive lesson in chopstick etiquette at a restaurant, while Margy pursues another paramour with characteristic chaos—culminating in a wedding scene. Held's linear, economical drawing style and sequential panel layout were standard to the newspaper comic strip format that established visual conventions for narrative comics. The strip's humor derives from contemporary manners, fashion, and the figure of the independent flapper, reflecting 1920s urban social life and the commercial appeal of character-driven gag comics in daily newspapers.