Betty

A Sunday newspaper strip by C. A. Voight following Betty's beach misadventure. The narrative unfolds across nine panels: Betty arrives at the shore in a modest bathing suit, encounters criticism from a headstrong father, and flees into the water. Her embarrassed father pursues her in a barrel, leading to a chain reaction of comic chaos as children and beachgoers join the chase. The strip demonstrates the visual vocabulary emerging in early comics—sequential panels, speech balloons, recurring characters, and sight gags—that would define newspaper comic pages and eventually the comic book medium. Voight's loose pen line and dynamic compositions carry the farcical action across multiple settings within a single strip, characteristic of how daily and Sunday pages pioneered visual storytelling before the formatted comic book.