Oh! Margy!

John Held, Jr.'s *Oh! Margy!* follows a carefree young woman through a night of dancing and socializing. The strip's three panels use sequential art to chronicle Margy's escapades: an energetic flea-hop at a country club, dancing into the early morning hours to hot jazz, and finally stumbling home exhausted. Held's elegant line work and fashion-forward illustrations capture the 1920s flapper aesthetic. The strip exemplifies the Sunday comics format that emerged in newspapers as the primary venue for sequential narrative art—a direct precursor to the comic book. Recurring characters and witty captions became hallmarks of the medium, establishing visual conventions that would define comics for decades.