Betty

A domestic comedy strip following Betty and her animal companions—a raccoon and a dog—through everyday household chaos. Lester de Pester's visit triggers a cascading series of slapstick mishaps: ruined hats, broken furniture, and escalating mayhem as Betty's mother struggles to maintain composure. The strip employs the visual conventions established by newspaper comics: sequential panels with speech balloons, expressive linework, and recurring characters in absurd situations. By 1919, such strips populated Sunday pages and dailies nationwide, establishing the visual grammar that would define comic books—panel arrangement, pacing, and character continuity across installments became fundamental to the medium.