Betty

This Sunday strip follows Betty through her office day, moving between her desk and her boss's office across multiple panels. The narrative builds on recurring workplace comedy: Betty repeatedly interrupts her supervisor with requests, each panel advancing the gag through her persistence and his exasperation. Artist C. A. Voight employs the sequential panel layout and speech balloons that became standard to newspaper comics, with clear sightlines guiding readers through Betty's movements across the office space. The strip demonstrates how early comic strips used recurring characters and familiar settings—the office, the boss, the secretary—to generate humor through situation and personality rather than punchlines alone. Betty represents the working-woman character type that populated comics of the 1910s–20s, drawn from contemporary urban life.