Betty

C. A. Voight's *Betty* follows a mischievous child through domestic misadventures in a middle-class home. This Sunday strip uses sequential panels and speech balloons to depict Betty's attempt to stage a surprise birthday party for her father—a scheme that spirals into comic chaos. The strip exemplifies how newspaper comics of the 1920s deployed recurring characters and escalating visual gags across multi-panel layouts. Voight's precise line work and clear spatial storytelling helped establish the visual grammar that would define comic strips and, later, the comic book medium. *Betty* was among dozens of child-centered strips that made newspaper comics essential family entertainment during this period.