Betty

This Sunday comic strip follows Betty's misadventure helping her father on the farm. The narrative unfolds through twelve panels arranged in a grid—a visual structure that became standard in newspaper comics. Artist C. A. Voight employs speech balloons to convey dialogue and thought, with Betty's expressive body language driving the humor across each frame. The strip exemplifies the early comic form that emerged from newspaper Sunday pages, where artists developed the visual grammar of sequential storytelling: recurring characters, panel transitions, and comedic timing through image alone. Betty was among dozens of popular strips that established comics as a distinct medium in the 1910s and 1920s, laying groundwork for the comic book industry that would follow.