Petey Dink, "All He Got Was an Appetite!"

C. A. Voight's *Petey Dink* follows a resourceful young protagonist through comic misadventures in this four-panel Sunday strip. The narrative unfolds across panels: Petey and a companion plan a fishing expedition, their boat capsizes in the water, they float helplessly, and finally Petey arrives at a dinner table where his appetite—not his catch—becomes the punchline. Voight employs the visual vocabulary emerging from newspaper comics: sequential panels with clear narrative progression, speech balloons conveying character voice, and expressive line work that conveys action and emotion. The strip exemplifies how newspaper comics of the 1910s developed the grammar of sequential art, establishing recurring characters and episodic gags that would become foundational to the medium.