Betty

This Sunday strip follows Betty through a winter skating mishap. The narrative unfolds across twelve panels: Betty attempts ice skating, falls repeatedly, and encounters a boy named Lester who offers help—only to end up in the frozen water himself. The strip employs the visual conventions emerging from newspaper comics: discrete rectangular panels, speech balloons, sequential action, and a recurring young female protagonist. The humor depends on physical comedy and slapstick, common to early comic strips. By 1920, Sunday newspaper pages had become a laboratory for visual storytelling, where artists tested panel layouts, pacing, and character development that would later define the comic book form.