Petey Dink by C. A. Voight

This strip follows the misadventures of Petey Dink, a small boy navigating adult social situations with innocent confusion. Voight employs the visual conventions that defined early newspaper comics: sequential panels with speech balloons, expressive line work, and a recurring protagonist. The humor derives from Petey's literal interpretations and social blunders—here, miscounting while adults discuss financial news. Published during the Sunday and daily strip era that established comics as a distinct medium, *Petey Dink* exemplifies how newspapers serialized character-driven humor through accessible drawings and punchy dialogue. The strip's episodic structure and reliance on visual gags became foundational to comic strip language.