Origins of the Sunday Comics by Peter Maresca for September 22, 2013

cool, bring on happy hooligan

And he got every prediction right.

Accurate in the 21st century..Opper must’ve been psychic.

Pretty good predictions, but he underestimated the “usual amount of fighting” done in the 20th century.

Wow, you sure this was 1899 and not 1999?

it IS rather amazing isn’t it? this was before airplanes, before rockets, before computers, before the internet ……..what a totally different world it was, and yet……

Nailed it. The more things change, the more they stay the same.

Didn’t they have the same arguments in 1899 that we did in 1999 regarding the end and beginning of a century? The century should change 1900 to 1901 (and 2000 to 2001), right? I guess the change from 18’s to 19’s is too compelling, though.

5 out of 6 anyway. Not sure about the large families.

6 of 6 when you live in Utah like I do.

No, david, he’s predicting continued large families, not larger ones. He was basically wrong about that, except maybe in Utah. (Is that true, DDD?)