Betty

C. A. Voight's *Betty* follows a young working woman through domestic and social comedies typical of 1920s newspaper strips. This Sunday page demonstrates the formal vocabulary that defined early comics: rectangular panels arranged in grid formation, speech balloons carrying dialogue and thought, and sequential action building narrative across frames. Betty moves through her day—job hunting, shopping, entertaining—while minor characters react to her schemes and observations. The strip's reliance on recurring situations and personality humor reflected newspaper comics' evolution from gag strips into serialized entertainment. By the early 1920s, such daily and Sunday pages had become foundational to comic art's visual grammar, influencing how stories would be told in picture form for generations.