Betty

C.A. Voight's *Betty* follows a resourceful girl and her companions through outdoor adventures and comic mishaps. Here, Betty and friends hunt rabbits in the woods, encountering a wolf that disrupts their plans. The strip employs the visual conventions now standard to newspaper comics: sequential panels with speech balloons, recurring characters, and sight gags building across frames. By the 1920s, such Sunday-page strips had become essential to newspaper circulation, establishing the visual grammar—panel layout, expressive linework, dialogue integration—that would directly shape the emerging comic book format. *Betty* represents the daily laboratory where artists refined the medium's vocabulary.