Betty

This Sunday page by C. A. Voight follows Betty and her companions on a winter skiing adventure. The strip employs sequential panels with speech balloons to advance its gag-driven narrative—a structural template that became foundational to American comics. Characters react to slapstick mishaps: tangled skis, tumbles, and encounters with a bear. Voight's pen line is economical yet expressive, rendering motion and personality through posture and gesture. By the 1920s, newspaper comics had evolved into a distinct medium, developing visual conventions—panel borders, word balloons, recurring protagonists—that would shape comic books for decades. Sunday pages offered artists space for visual elaboration and humor that daily strips could not, making them laboratories for the form.