From the exhibition
Etta Kett by Paul Robinson
· 1920s–1930s
A daily comic strip following the escapades of Etta Kett, a young flapper navigating romance and social mishaps. Robinson's strip employs the formal visual vocabulary of early newspaper comics: panel borders, speech balloons anchoring dialogue, and recurring character types. The narrative unfolds across sequential panels showing cause and effect—a hallmark of comic storytelling inherited from 19th-century broadside sequences. *Etta Kett* appeared in syndicated newspapers nationwide, part of the vast ecosystem of daily strips that established the medium's conventions before comic books reprinted this material in bound form during the 1930s.
Public domain, restored and presented by comicbooks.com public-domain
