Betty

C. A. Voight's *Betty* follows a young woman through domestic and social mishaps, rendered in the visual language that newspaper comics had crystallized by 1919: bordered panels, speech balloons, sequential narrative, and recurring character types. Here Betty's father intervenes in her romantic troubles, setting off a chain of misunderstandings at a ladies' club gathering. The strip relies on the sight gag and physical comedy—pratfalls, confusion, mistaken identity—that animated the Sunday pages and daily strips of the era. By this period, newspaper comics had established themselves as a mass medium with their own visual grammar, distinct from both illustration and theatre, and *Betty* exemplifies the domestic comedy formula that dominated American funny pages in the 1910s and 1920s.