Seein' Stars by Peg Murray

Peg Murray's *Seein' Stars* brought Hollywood into the daily newspaper comic strip. Murray, known for his sports cartoons, shifted focus to celebrity portraiture rendered in ink with energetic line work. The strip presented caricatures of film actors and actresses in vignettes that emphasized glamour and personality. Published across dailies and Sunday pages, *Seein' Stars* exemplified how newspapers commodified movie stardom through sequential art. Murray's clean draftsmanship and use of the single-panel and multi-panel format helped establish visual conventions—framing, scale, and character focus—that would become foundational to comic strip and comic book grammar throughout the twentieth century.