Betty

A Sunday newspaper strip by C. A. Voight featuring Betty and her misadventures at the shore. The narrative unfolds across nine panels: Betty's parents discuss her reckless swimming; she falls from a pier and must be rescued; escalating chaos ensues as her father attempts to save her using increasingly absurd methods involving lobsters and buckets. The strip employs the visual conventions that defined early comic strips: sequential panels advancing a linear story, speech balloons for dialogue, and repeated character design. These Sunday pages—appearing in newspapers nationwide—established the visual grammar later adopted by comic books. Artists like Voight developed the panel-to-panel flow that became fundamental to the medium, transforming illustrated humor into a distinctly sequential narrative art form.