Oh! Margy!

John Held, Jr.'s *Oh! Margy!* captures the flapper era through sequential comic narrative. The strip follows Margy's misadventures across four panels: swarmed by bees, acquiring hornets the next day, and finally attempting the Charleston—a jazz-age dance craze. Held's loose, energetic line work and visual humor rely on panel sequence and recurring character to drive the gag. This Sunday page exemplifies how newspaper comics of the 1920s established the visual grammar of modern comics: speech balloons, numbered progression, and character consistency across installments that would become foundational to the medium.