Betty

This Sunday strip by C. A. Voight follows Betty through a domestic comedy centered on a lost hat. The narrative unfolds across twelve panels in a grid structure typical of newspaper comics of the era, tracking Betty's frantic search and the chaos it creates for her household and a visitor named Lester de Pester. Voight employs the visual conventions established by earlier comic strip pioneers: sequential panels with speech balloons, exaggerated character expressions, and motion lines conveying action. The humor derives from escalating domestic disorder and Betty's increasingly desperate reactions. The strip demonstrates how newspapers serialized character-driven gags in the decade when the Sunday funnies became central to American popular culture and established the visual language that would define comic books.