Oh! Margy!

John Held Jr.'s *Oh! Margy!* captured the flapper era through sequential comedy. The strip follows Margy as she pursues her film idol across four connected scenes: meeting him at a social event, crashing the Ritz for tea, sharing a kiss, and waking to find herself hugging a pillow. Held's economical line work and fashion-forward character design defined 1920s newspaper comics, while the progression of panels—each advancing the narrative and gag—demonstrates the visual storytelling methods inherited from earlier comic strips. The work exemplifies how Sunday newspaper pages served as the primary venue for sequential art before the comic book medium emerged.