Betty

C. A. Voight's *Betty* exemplifies the Sunday newspaper comic strip at its commercial peak. The strip follows Betty through domestic and social mishaps rendered in clean pen line and cross-hatching. Here, Betty's attempts to manage household servants spiral into chaos: miscommunication, spilled ash, missing groceries, and escalating confusion between employer and staff fill twelve panels of escalating visual gags. Voight relies on the formal vocabulary already codified by 1920—bordered rectangular panels, speech balloons, recurring characters, and sequential action—to guide readers through cause and effect. The strip's humor depends on physical comedy and class-based predicament, stock elements of early newspaper comics that generated both loyal readership and syndication revenue across hundreds of papers.