Betty

This Sunday comic by C. A. Voight follows Betty through a chaotic evening of domestic mishaps and musical performance. The strip uses sequential panels with speech balloons to track Betty's misadventures: planning a dark night of music with friends, attempting to perform a song, creating household disruptions, and ultimately being asked to play again despite the destruction. Voight employs slapstick physical comedy and exaggerated expressions typical of early newspaper comics. The recurring character Betty anchors multiple gags across interconnected scenes, demonstrating how newspaper strips built narrative momentum through panel-to-panel progression. Published during the medium's formative years, *Betty* exemplifies the visual storytelling conventions—word balloons, sequential action, comic timing through layout—that newspaper strips pioneered and that would become foundational to comic books.