Etta Kett by Paul Robinson

A daily strip following a young working woman navigating modern life in the Jazz Age. Robinson's *Etta Kett* employed the visual conventions established by earlier newspaper comics: multiple panels arranged left-to-right, speech balloons for dialogue, and a recurring cast of supporting characters. The strip's humor turned on domestic situations and romantic misadventures, delivered through tight panel composition and expressive figure work. *Etta Kett* exemplified the syndicated newspaper comic—the primary medium for sequential narrative art before the comic book anthology format emerged in the 1930s. These daily strips, reprinted and collected, directly fed the early comic book industry.