Ophelia by Dwiggins

A Sunday newspaper comic strip featuring a character named Ophelia, drawn by W.A. Dwiggins. The strip employs visual gags typical of early 1910s humor comics: an exaggerated figure wearing an elaborate hat adorned with flowers and birds, dressed in mismatched garments and carrying various objects including a bag labeled "Little Annie Rooney's Hats" and a suitcase marked "Smudges." The composition uses a single-panel format rather than sequential narrative panels, common for Sunday color comics of this era. The subtitle poses a rhetorical question about the character's appearance, anchoring the humor in visual satire. Dwiggins's line work shows the bold, expressive style characteristic of early newspaper comic illustration, which directly influenced the visual language of emerging comic books.