Oh! Margy!

A Sunday strip by John Held Jr. featuring Margy's visit to the zoo. The narrative unfolds across four panels: Margy observes raccoons at the Raccoon Habitat, remarks on their parenting efforts toward college, and the strip concludes with a joke about the zoo's poor financial condition. Held's loose pen line and stylized figures exemplify the graphic innovations of 1920s newspaper comics—sequential panels advancing a gag, speech balloons carrying dialogue, and recurring characters in domestic scenarios. The strip appeared during the golden age of Sunday newspaper supplements, when comic strips served as both entertainment and visual laboratories for the formal language that would define the medium.