Betty by C. A. Voight

This Sunday strip follows Betty through domestic misadventures involving visitors, household chaos, and exasperated authority figures. Voight employs the sequential narrative grid standard to newspaper comics of the era, with speech balloons advancing plot through verbal comedy and visual gags. Betty's recurring character and predicaments appear across multiple panels, demonstrating the narrative techniques that defined early comic strips—a form that directly preceded the comic book. The artist uses cross-hatching and line work typical of 1910s–1920s newspaper illustration, building comedic tension through escalating domestic disorder and character reactions across the strip's progression.