Betty

Sunday newspaper strip by C. A. Voight following Betty through domestic misadventures and slapstick comedy. The strip employs the visual vocabulary that had emerged by the 1920s: sequential panels advancing narrative action, speech balloons carrying dialogue, and recurring characters in episodic plots. Betty was among dozens of family-centered strips populating Sunday comics sections, where artists developed and refined the formal language—panel borders, perspective, motion lines—that would become foundational to comic books. The strip's humor relies on physical gags and situational comedy typical of newspaper comics of the period, delivered through economical black-and-white line work suited to mass reproduction and daily readership.