Etta Kett

Paul Robinson's *Etta Kett* follows a flapper-era teenage girl navigating romance, family life, and social mishaps. This strip exemplifies the newspaper comic's visual language: sequential panels with speech balloons, recurring characters, and sight gags told across daily and Sunday formats. The girl protagonist became a fixture of American comics during the Jazz Age, part of a broader shift toward character-driven humor strips. Like *Gasoline Alley* and *Polly and Her Pals*, *Etta Kett* helped establish the comic strip as a daily serial art form that shaped the eventual development of the comic book industry.