Seein' Stars

Feg Murray's *Seein' Stars* was a Hollywood gossip and celebrity feature drawn in the style of newspaper comic strips. Each installment profiled film personalities through portrait drawings and brief biographical notes. Here, Zasu Pitts appears alongside Edward Everett Horton and a feature on Tom Walls, winner of the 1932 Epsom Derby. The strip exemplifies how newspaper comics merged entertainment news with illustrated portraiture, using panel layouts and typography to organize information. These Sunday features reached millions of readers and established visual conventions—framing, cropping, speech balloons—that became foundational to comic strip and comic book design during the medium's formative years.