Betty

C.A. Voight's *Betty* strips the domestic interior down to its essential comedy: a young woman navigating household chaos and family dynamics. This Sunday page demonstrates the visual syntax that newspaper comics had codified by the early 1920s—multiple rectangular panels arranged in strict grid, speech balloons anchored to speakers, recurring cast of recognizable types. The strip's humor turns on Betty's exasperation as servants stumble, relatives intrude, and minor disasters compound. Voight's ink line is economical, relying on cross-hatching and bold blacks for depth and movement. *Betty* ran in syndication throughout the 1920s, exemplifying the everyday-life comedy that dominated the comics pages alongside adventure strips—a format that would define American newspaper comics and directly influence the pulp pamphlets that became the comic book industry.