Oh! Margy!

John Held, Jr.'s daily strip follows Margy through five comic scenarios, each a self-contained gag about a flapper's misadventures. Held's thin, elongated figures and sparse line work defined the visual style of 1920s humor comics. The strip uses sequential panels with captions below—a direct ancestor of modern comic strip layout. Margy's character type, the modern young woman navigating swimming, diving, and social situations, reflects the era's preoccupation with the New Woman. Held's influential approach to figure drawing and comic timing made him central to the newspaper comic strip's development as a distinct art form, bridging editorial cartooning and the serialized narratives that would define the medium.