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Though the Kids, who appear only in Sunday comic pages, have fallen behind such seven-days-a-week upstarts as Li'l Abner (820 daily and Sunday newspapers) and Blondie (1,200), their anarchistic appeal is still powerful enough to support their antics in two rival strips: The Katzenjammer...
Hangover Habit. Hans and Fritz were born of the great circulation war between Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst; Pulitzer's New York Sunday World sired the first colored U.S. comic 61 years ago last week. Its star, a slangy, yellow-nightgowned infant who achieved fame as The Yellow...
German-born Rudolph Dirks was the first U.S. cartoonist to develop a plot with a series of consecutive panels and a permanent cast of characters, the first to enclose all his dialogue in balloons. His Kids, christened Katzenjammer (German slang for hangover) by a Journal editor, became a classic over...
TNT & Sympathy. With time out for the Spanish-American War (he was a corporal), a 1912 trip to Europe and a five-year fling at retirement that ended in 1937, Rudy Dirks has been chronicling the Kids ever since. The great Katzenjammer feud broke out in 1913, when the Journal...
Assisted by his son, Yaleman John Dirks, 39, spry Rudy Dirks now works two days a week to turn out The Captain, spends the rest of his time painting landscapes and portraits in oils. The Katenjammers are drawn by Joe Musial. The Captain runs in fewer than 100 newspapers.v. The...