Millie and Her Millions

A Sunday newspaper comic strip following a wealthy young woman navigating social situations and romantic entanglements. The strip employs the visual conventions that had recently crystallized in newspaper comics: sequential panels with speech balloons, a continuing cast of recurring characters, and gag-driven narrative. By the 1910s, the Sunday funnies had become a major draw for newspapers and a training ground for artists developing the visual language that would define American comics—panel borders establishing sequence, dialogue contained in balloons, exaggerated expressions conveying character and emotion. *Millie and Her Millions* exemplifies the society-page humor and domestic comedy that dominated the era's comic strips.