Militant Mary

This single-panel comic features Mary, a determined woman wearing glasses and holding a rifle, threatening male voters with force if they fail to support women's suffrage. The strip employs direct address and physical comedy to advocate for voting rights, merging propaganda with humor—a tactic newspapers used to reach broad audiences during the suffrage campaign. The simple line work and bold lettering are characteristic of early 20th-century newspaper comics, which relied on recurring characters and punchy dialogue to build reader loyalty. Such strips helped establish the visual and narrative conventions that would define comic art for decades.