Etta Kett by Paul Robinson

A daily strip following the romantic misadventures of Etta Kett, a young flapper navigating courtship and social situations. Robinson's comic employs the visual conventions established by newspaper strips: sequential panels with speech balloons, recurring characters, and sight gags. The strip depicts Etta caught between suitors and social expectations, her expressive face and gestures driving the humor across each panel. *Etta Kett* represents the syndicated newspaper comic that preceded the comic book—serialized humor that reached millions of readers daily and established the grammar of sequential art: panel borders, dialogue placement, and character consistency that would become foundational to the medium.