Betty

This Sunday strip by C. A. Voight follows Betty and her infant twin brother through a seaside misadventure. When the twins are separated, Betty must rescue her brother from the surf, leading to a frantic retrieval involving multiple adults. The strip demonstrates the visual economy of newspaper comics: recurring characters, sequential panels with clear spatial progression, and dialogue balloons advancing both plot and personality. By the 1910s, such strips had become essential Sunday newspaper features, establishing conventions—panel borders, expressive line work, visual gags tied to character—that would define comic art for decades. Betty's resourcefulness and the strip's rapid-fire pacing exemplify how newspaper comics compressed narrative and humor into a format designed for quick consumption by mass audiences.