Seein' Stars

Feg Murray's *Seein' Stars* exemplified the celebrity-focused newspaper comic strip, a format that flourished in the Sunday pages alongside sports and society columns. The strip featured caricatured portraits of Hollywood figures—here Harold Lloyd and Lilian Harvey—surrounded by vignettes of their public and private lives. Murray's layout combined portraiture with sequential panels and brief narrative captions, a hybrid approach common in early newspaper comics that blended gossip-column text with visual narrative. The Eiffel Tower, tour buses, and continental settings reflected the era's fascination with transatlantic celebrity culture. These strips demonstrated how newspapers used comics to cover entertainment news, establishing recurring characters and visual formats that would define the medium's visual grammar.