Time Waits for No Woman

Nell Brinkley's Sunday page combines sequential panels with decorative illustration—a hallmark of early newspaper comics. The strip follows multiple female figures across a landscape populated by Time personified as a winged, robed figure. Brinkley's ornate linework and flowing draperies reflect Art Nouveau influence, while the layout—mixing narrative sequence with elaborate border design—shows the formal experimentation of 1910s newspaper comics. The accompanying prose description anchors the visual story, a common hybrid form before the modern comic strip standardized image-only narration. Brinkley's work appeared in major papers and helped establish the Sunday supplement as a venue for illustrated narrative and recurring characters.