Betty

C. A. Voight's Betty follows a resourceful young woman navigating mishaps across daily episodes. Here, Betty and companions attempt to salvage a stranded boat, their predicament unfolding through six rows of panels that exploit the newspaper strip's emerging visual vocabulary: close-ups, wide shots, and sequential action broken by speech balloons. The strip exemplifies the form pioneered in early twentieth-century Sunday pages—recurring characters, episodic narrative, and economical linework that delivered comedy and mild adventure to millions of daily readers. Such strips established the panel grammar that would define comic books for decades to come.