I Always Say— (Sez Gracie Allen)

This comic strip by C. Soglow features Gracie Allen, the vaudeville and radio personality, stepping across the months of June, July, and August while holding a bridal bouquet. The gag challenges the "June bride" convention—Allen argues that women married in June are married "clear into" July and beyond, making the term narrow-minded. The strip uses sequential panels and speech balloons, visual devices refined through decades of newspaper comics. By the 1930s, the Sunday newspaper page had become a laboratory for comic timing and character-driven humor, with strips built around celebrity voices and topical observations. Soglow's economical line style and direct address to the reader reflect the era's approach to humor as commentary on contemporary social assumptions.