Petey Dink

A Sunday strip by C. A. Voight following Petey Dink and his guardians through domestic mishaps. The six-panel layout demonstrates the visual conventions that newspaper comics standardized: sequential frames, speech balloons advancing narrative, and recurring child characters whose misadventures drove humor. By the 1910s, such strips appeared in Sunday editions nationwide, establishing the formal vocabulary—panel borders, word balloons, sight gags—that would structure comic books when they emerged a decade later. Petey's adventures represent the humor strip tradition that treated children as complex protagonists rather than peripheral figures.