Betty

A daily newspaper strip by C. A. Voight following Betty, a young office worker navigating workplace dynamics. The narrative unfolds across nine panels as Betty moves between desk and interactions with colleagues and supervisors, her expressions and body language carrying the comedy. Voight employs the formal visual vocabulary of 1920s comic strips: rectangular panels with clear sight lines, speech balloons containing dialogue and internal monologue, and sequential staging that guides readers through cause and effect. Betty represents the emerging middle-class working woman of the Jazz Age, a recurring character whose familiarity gave readers daily connection to contemporary urban life. The strip exemplifies how newspaper comics translated theatrical timing and pantomime into the sequential art form that would define twentieth-century visual narrative.