From the exhibition
Oh! Margy!
· December 6, 1925
By John Held, Jr., this Sunday strip follows Margy's misadventure at a costume party. The narrative unfolds across two scenes: left panel shows her admiring her elaborate fancy dress in the mirror; right panels reveal the comic payoff—none of the boys recognized her because she masked her knees. Held's style exemplifies 1920s comic strip design: clean line work, sequential panel composition, speech balloons advancing plot, and a recurring female character. The strip demonstrates how newspaper comics evolved visual storytelling through posed figures, graphic clarity, and gag timing—foundational techniques that shaped modern comic book language.
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