Betty

C. A. Voight's *Betty* comic strip depicts a young woman and her companions in a seaside rescue scenario. The narrative unfolds across multiple panels: bathers call for help after someone drowns; Betty and friends spring into action; a lifeguard arrives; Betty claims credit for the rescue. Voight employs the visual grammar established by newspaper comic pioneers—sequential panels, speech balloons, and expressive figure work—to convey both action and character. The humor derives from Betty's self-aggrandizing account of her heroism. Drawn in black ink with cross-hatching for depth, the strip exemplifies the Sunday newspaper comic page format that defined early twentieth-century sequential art and established conventions still used in comics today.