Betty

Betty follows a young woman navigating social situations with her parents and suitors. This Sunday strip demonstrates the visual vocabulary that defined early newspaper comics: multiple tiers of panels, dialogue balloons advancing narrative, and recurring characters in domestic settings. By the 1920s, newspaper Sunday pages like Betty had become the primary vehicle for comic storytelling in America, establishing the sequential art form that would evolve into the modern comic book. The strip's drawing style—quick line work, exaggerated expressions, spatial composition across the page—became foundational to how artists would later structure visual storytelling across sequential panels.