Etta Kett

Paul Robinson's *Etta Kett* followed the romantic and social misadventures of a teenage girl navigating school, dating, and family life. The strip exemplifies the newspaper comic's visual language: sequential panels with speech balloons, recurring characters in daily situations, and sight gags that played on contemporary teen culture. Like many strips of the era, *Etta Kett* appeared in daily and Sunday editions, establishing the newspaper page as the primary venue for sequential art before comic books emerged as a distinct medium. Robinson's clean linework and expressive character acting made the strip readable across papers nationwide, demonstrating how newspaper comics trained readers in the grammar of panel-to-panel storytelling that would define the comic book format.