Betty

C. A. Voight's *Betty* follows a young woman navigating social calls and romantic complications across four tiers of sequential panels. The strip employs the visual conventions established by newspaper comics in the 1900s: discrete frames advancing narrative time, speech balloons for dialogue, and a recurring protagonist whose domestic misadventures drive the humor. *Betty* represents the Sunday comic supplement tradition—serialized humor strips distributed in newspapers nationwide. By the 1920s, such strips had defined the formal grammar of comics: panel borders, word-image integration, and character-driven narratives that entertained broad audiences and prefigured the comic book format that would consolidate these elements into bound anthologies.