Oh! Margy!

This two-panel Sunday comic by John Held, Jr., exemplifies the slapstick humor of the Jazz Age. The strip follows Margy and her generation as they encounter modern problems—here, a car deemed too slow for contemporary tastes. Panel one shows a chaotic automobile mishap with dynamic diagonal lines conveying speed and collision. Panel two shifts to aviation, setting up the final gag: if cars prove inadequate, what absurd solution awaits next? Held's loose, energetic linework and recurring characters established the visual vocabulary of newspaper comics. His work appeared in both dailies and Sunday pages, helping establish the format as essential entertainment alongside sports and politics.