Oh! Margy!

John Held, Jr.'s *Oh! Margy!* captures the visual language of 1920s newspaper comics: a three-panel Sunday strip with speech balloons, expressive figure drawing, and sight gags. Here Margy, a flapper character, encounters consequences after speeding in a new bus—stopped by a cop for exceeding the speed limit, she tears up her ticket rather than accept the citation. Held's minimalist line work and dynamic compositions exemplify the graphic innovations that emerged from the Sunday funny pages, where recurring characters and episodic humor became the foundation of American comic art. The strip's design—distinct panels, integrated text and image, and comedic timing through sequential narrative—inherited techniques from earlier newspaper pioneers while establishing conventions that would define the medium.