Betty

C. A. Voight's *Betty* follows a young woman navigating domestic life, office work, and family disputes through a continuous narrative across multiple panels. The strip employs established visual conventions: sequential scenes with speech balloons, varied panel sizes for comic timing, and expressive ink work to convey action and emotion. By the 1920s, newspaper comic strips had become a distinct visual medium, building on decades of evolution in sequential art. Daily strips like *Betty* reached millions of readers and demonstrated how recurring characters, domestic humor, and panel-to-panel storytelling could sustain reader engagement across ongoing narratives—establishing the formal language that would define comics for generations.