Mutt and Jeff, the >Almost< First Daily Comic Strip, Ended Forty Years Ago Today
Mutt and Jeff, recognized as the first regularly published daily comic strip >see Allan Hotz’s comment below<, ended after 75…
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Moon Mullins – Friends in Low Places
After a decade as a struggling cartoonist, minus a couple years as a World War I doughboy, Frank Willard found…
Rarity: Casey’s Capers by Vincent Faletti
Vincent D. Faletti began cartooning while serving in the Armed Forces during World War 2. Returning home to Michigan he…
Rarity: The First Dirty Duck as Daily Strip
In the last year of Dan O’Neill’s Odd Bodkins for Chronicle Features O’Neill had met Bobby London and others who…
First and Last: Smilin’ Jack
It wasn’t the first aviation comic strip – Tailspin Tommy (1928), Skyroads (1929, which had Zack Mosley art assist), Scorchy…
First and Last: Rusty Riley
By 1948 Frank Godwin (b. 1889) had spent a good 40 years as a respected and requested illustrator for newspapers,…
Ach, 125 Years of Those Katzenjammer Kids – Updated, Now a First and Last(?) Entry
The original December 12, 2022 item: The Katzenjammer Kids first appeared December 12, 1897. Above: the first issue of The…
The Last Hogan’s Alley … and the First
Hogan’s Alley was a famous (now and then) Sunday comic that began in Joseph Pulitzer’s New York World. It was…
First & Last – Smitty (1922-1974) by Walter Berndt
One hundred years ago saw the debut of Smitty by Walter Berndt. From Don Markstein’s Toonopedia: [Berndt] sold Bill the…
Car Toons: Auto Album by Tad Burness
A First and Last Entry Tad Burness was 30 and an aspiring cartoonist. According to Tad via Jalopnik: “In 1962,…
Rarity: Etta Hulme’s Comic Strip “The Strangers”
Famed Texas editorial cartoonist Etta Hulme (Ft. Worth Star-Telegram 1972 – 2008) drew a comic strip for her newspaper for…