Betty

C. A. Voight's *Betty* strip demonstrates the visual vocabulary emerging in newspaper comics: sequential panels, speech balloons, and a recurring protagonist navigating domestic comedy. The Sunday page format, printed in black ink, was the primary medium through which comic narratives reached mass audiences before the syndicated dailies and comic books that followed. The strip's episodic gags—Betty as singer, flirter, and schemer—relied on visual pacing and character recognition to sustain reader interest across panels. Voight's line work captures expressions and physical comedy that newspaper readers expected from the form, establishing conventions of panel layout and character design that would define American comics for decades.