Betty

This Sunday strip follows Betty through a domestic comedy: she attempts to play jazz piano, invites friends for an evening, and chaos erupts when a piano crashes through the floor. C. A. Voight's *Betty* employed the visual conventions now standard to newspaper comics—sequential panels, speech balloons, and recurring characters in domestic situations. The strip's slapstick humor and middle-class setting reflected the urban readership of early twentieth-century newspapers, where comic strips had become the primary vehicle for visual narrative. Voight's fluid linework and clear panel progression demonstrate the formal language that would define the medium as it evolved from Sunday supplements into collected comic books.