Etta Kett

Paul Robinson's *Etta Kett* strips a teenage girl navigating school, home, and social life through slapstick humor and romantic entanglement. The Sunday page format displays Robinson's command of panel layout and timing: sight gags build across frames, speech balloons anchor character voices, and recurring characters anchor the narrative. *Etta Kett* belongs to the newspaper comic tradition that preceded the comic book—dailies and Sunday sections that trained artists in visual storytelling, sequential pacing, and the formal vocabulary of comics. These strips were the primary venue for graphic narratives, reaching millions of readers and establishing conventions that would define the medium for decades.