Meet the Misses!

By Jack Wilhelm, this Sunday strip follows a cast of young women navigating romance, business, and social life. The narrative unfolds across multiple panels showing Grace pitching a nameplate business to a potential buyer, her sales pitch interrupted by romantic mishaps and competitive complications. Wilhelm employs the visual conventions developed by comic strip pioneers: sequential panels advancing plot and dialogue through speech balloons, recurring characters, and exaggerated linework for comedic effect. The strip typifies the humor pages that drove newspaper circulation in the 1920s, where comic strips served as the direct precursor to comic books, establishing the visual grammar and narrative pacing that would define the medium.