Origins of the Sunday Comics by Peter Maresca for August 14, 2015

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    davidf42  over 9 years ago

    I see how it’s worded at the top, “Original artist of the Katzenjammer Kids!”

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    VICTOR PROULX  over 9 years ago

    65 years…fantastic.

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    pauljmsn  over 9 years ago

    The Katzenjammer Kids strip is still running today, even though it’s a shell of its former self.

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    Fruno  over 9 years ago

    I don’t even count today’s Katzies as the same strip. Actually, I don’t count today’s newspaper comics as comic strips.

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    John W Kennedy Premium Member over 9 years ago

    I remember reading both “The Katzenjammer Kids” and “The Captain and the Kids” back in the 50s (my Grandmother mailed us the Sunday comics of all the NYC papers) and wondering what was going on, but I didn’t find out until many years later.

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    MansellinDistress  about 9 years ago

    The reason both lasted for so long: Dirks’ version ( Cap ‘n’ Kids) was quite good, but Harold Knerr’s (Katz) version was sensational. A riot of pacing and a beautiful fluid line.

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    Darryl Heine  about 9 years ago

    I didn’t know the Katzenjammer Kids (a/k/a The Captain and the Kids) ran in the Chicago Tribune back in the old days of newspapers and comics!

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