Oh! Margy!

By John Held, Jr., *Oh! Margy!* follows a character visiting London, narrated through sequential panels with speech balloons—the visual conventions that defined early newspaper comics. The strip captures 1920s Jazz Age humor through sight gags and dialogue: a woman's frantic attempt to master English driving customs, culminating in her losing an automobile and bewildering a proper British bobby. Held's clean line work and caricatured figures typify the style that made newspaper strips a daily staple for millions of readers, establishing recurring characters and comedic timing through panel progression. These dailies and Sunday pages formed the visual vocabulary later adopted by comic books themselves.