Betty

C. A. Voight's *Betty* follows a young woman navigating social situations through witty dialogue and physical comedy. This Sunday strip exemplifies the visual vocabulary emerging in newspaper comics: sequential panels with speech balloons, recurring characters, and escalating gags. Betty's interactions with butlers, party guests, and suitors drive the narrative through a series of misunderstandings and slapstick moments. The strip's reliance on readable expressions and clear panel progression reflects how newspaper comics were training readers to parse sequential art—a grammar that would become foundational to the medium. Voight's ink work captures movement and reaction with economical line work typical of the period's commercial illustration standards.