Etta Kett by Paul Robinson

Paul Robinson's *Etta Kett* follows a young woman navigating modern urban life through romance, automobiles, and social situations. The strip employs the visual vocabulary standardized by newspaper comics: rectangular panels arranged left to right, speech balloons anchored to speakers, and recurring characters in ongoing narrative situations. Robinson uses close observation of gesture and clothing to establish personality and social class, while sequential panels advance gags through timing and pacing. *Etta Kett* appeared in Sunday and daily formats, part of the syndicated newspaper comic tradition that furnished the visual and narrative templates inherited by the comic book medium emerging in the 1930s.