Oh! Margy!

John Held, Jr.'s Sunday strip contrasts rural and urban life through the character Margy. The left panel depicts a traditional farm scene where girls rose before dawn to milk cows; the right shows modern city life, where Margy stays out dancing until morning. Held's crisp line work and sequential visual narrative exemplify the newspaper comic strip's evolution into a dominant entertainment form. The strip's layout—inset illustration, paired vignettes with captions, recurring character—became standard vocabulary for comics that emerged directly from Sunday newspaper supplements during the 1920s.