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	The Katzenjammer Kids
		The Katzenjammer Kids first appeared in the Sunday comic pages in December 1897, which means that Hans and Fritz are now engaged in their second century of antics in the funny pages.
		Ultimately, the Katzenjammer Kids were continued for the Hearst papers by Harold H. Knerr, and the court awarded Dirks the right to continue drawing his characters, so long as they were not entitled "The Katzenjammer Kids." This, he proceeded to do for the rival Pulitzer newspapers.
		The one on the left is from a 1918 "Captain and the Kids" by Dirks.
	www.geocities.com /~jimlowe/katzies/katzdex.html (3155 words)

	Comics Journal 127 :: Oh You Kid
		The Yellow Kid (1895) was the first star of Sunday newspapers' color funny sections, and he was the most prominent of a ragtag band of kids who populated Hogan's Alley in R.F. Outcault's phenomenally successful series of urban-slum genre drawings.
		The Katzenjammers manifested an anarchic abandon (and their punishment appealed to an authoritarian steain) that struck chords at the turn of the century.
		He dares us to see the world the way his kid sees it, and he dares himself to present it to us in ways that the kid magically alive inside him sees it, and in ways that no other cartoonists today are showing it.
	ignatz.brinkster.net /cohyoukid.html (2556 words)

	The Katzenjammer Kids: Comic Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Both the "Katzenjammer Kids" and the "Captain and the Kids" appeared in a number of different comic books.
		The Katzenjammer Kids appeared in six issues between 1942 and 1946.
		The Captain and the Kids newspaper reprints appeared along with those of Nancy and Li'l Abner, the three titles alternating appearances on the cover.
	www.geocities.com /~jimlowe/katzies/comix.html (487 words)

	Mayhem, Mischief, and Moguls: The Katzenjammer Kids Turn 100. Enjoy the antics of these comic strip originals. By ...
		Not only was the Katzenjammer Kids the most popular strip of its time, but their gifted 20-year-old creator Rudolph Dirks--the son of a German immigrant--is credited with being one of the "founding fathers" of the comic strip.
		Anti-German sentiment during the two world wars did little to abate the popularity of The Katzenjammer Kids, although their identity was briefly changed as a result of World War I. The strip from July 7, 1918 shows the whole family going before a judge and explaining to him that they are really Dutch not German.
		Could they please change their name from "Katzenjammer" to "Shenanigan" because it's such a nuisance being mistaken for, as they say in their inimitable way, "Choimans?" And so, for about two years, the strip was actually known as The Shenanigan Kids and Hans and Fritz became Mike and Aleck.
	www.germanlife.com /Archives/1997/9702_01.html (8191 words)

	Katzenjammer Kids
		Katzenjammer Kids is probably the world's second oldest comic strip (after The Yellow Kid, which ran from 1895-98) and the oldest one still in syndication.
		Dirks sued, and after a long legal battle the Hearst papers were allowed to continue The Katzenjammer Kids and Dirks was allowed to syndicate an almost identical strip, called The Captain and the Kids after 1918, for the rival Pulitzer newspapers.
		Following Knerr's death, The Katzenjammer Kids was taken over by Charles H. Winner from 1949-1956, Joe Musial from 1956-1976, Mike Senisch from 1976-1981, and Angelo DeCesare from 1981-1986.
	www.sfcrowsnest.com /scifinder/a/Katzenjammer_Kids.php (423 words)

	Harold H. Knerr
		In addition to the characters which resemble the cast of the Katzenjammer Kids, it is interesting to note two characters that foreshadow the appearance of characters that Knerr would introduce many years later.
		During those years the Katzenjammer family ventured to the far corners of the world, engaging in many interesting adventures from the arctic to the tropics.
		There is little beyond illustrations of the Katzenjammer Kids in other formats such as children's books and small specialty sketches mailed to those fans who wrote to request them.
	www.yodaslair.com /dumboozle/knerr/knerrdex.html (2825 words)

	Katzenjammer Kids - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		1.2 Katzenjammer Kids versus The Captain and the Kids
		A deathrock band in France, Katzenjammer Kabarett, is named in honour of the comic strip.
		Cafe Katzenjammer, a German dining establishment located in the West Point Grey neighborhood of Vancouver, British Columbia, is named after the comic strip.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Katzenjammer_Kids (941 words)

	Comic creator: Rudolph Dirks
		His editor asked him to create a strip that could compete with the popularity of 'The Yellow Kid' by Outcault, which was published in a rival newspaper, The New York World.
		The result was that the artist Harold Knerr continued the 'Katzenjammer Kids' strip in the New York Journal, while Dirks resumed resumed the strip in the New York World under the title 'Hans und Fritz'.
		He later renamed it to 'The Captain and the Kids', because of the anti-German sentiment during World War I. Dirks retired in 1958, leaving 'The Captain and the Kids' to his assistant and son, John Dirks.
	www.lambiek.net /artists/d/dirks_r.htm (309 words)

	William Randolph Hearst and the Comics
		It was in Joseph Pulitzer's NEW YORK WORLD that cartoonist Richard Outcault's legendary Yellow Kid made his newspaper debut in 1895, but it was Hearst's NEW YORK JOURNAL that cannily snatched the Kid away from the rival sheet and deployed him as a key weapon in the historic newspaper circulation wars.
		The Kid holds title as the star of the first successful comic feature, but it was years before his debut that a troupe of little bears first appeared in Hearst's SAN FRANCISCO EXAMINER, demonstrating the power of continuing characters to engage readers.
		THE KATZENJAMMER KIDS were a sensation from the start, expanding into other newspapers and becoming one of the public's best-loved comic features.
	www.psu.edu /dept/inart10_110/inart10/hearst.html (1121 words)

	A Selected History of Comics
		Every kid does it once or twice, drawing a picture of the cat and begging to have it put on the refrigerator for public display.
		The next strip that is considered the first bonafide strip is the Katzenjammer Kids printed by Hearst Publications.
		As Dirks was jousted out of his position and the strip was continued by Hearst under the artist Harold Knerr, the Katzenjammer Kids gradually became more Americanized in their speech.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/comic_strips/102135/1 (573 words)

	Don Markstein's Toonopedia: The Captain and the Kids
		The Captain & the Kids is not the only example of a comic strip cloned from another comic strip —; but it's certainly the most prominent.
		… The Katzenjammer Kids, about the antics of an incorrigible pair of boys named Hans and Fritz Katzenjammer and their long-suffering victims, their Mama, The Captain, and The Inspector, in 1897, as a Sunday page for the Hearst papers.
		The Captain & the Kids folded in 1979.
	www.toonopedia.com /cap_kids.htm (500 words)

	Don Markstein's Toonopedia: The Katzenjammer Kids
		Whatever the case, The Katzenjammer Kids is not only a long-lasting and, at times, very funny strip — it's also an important one historically.
		The judge followed a precedent set when The Yellow Kid switched papers in 1896 and Buster Brown in 1906 — Hearst kept The Katzenjammer Kids, but Dirks was allowed to use the same characters elsewhere, provided he used a different title for the strip.
		Meanwhile, the original Katzenjammer Kids strip continued, with Knerr remaining on the Sunday page for over a third of a century.
	www.toonopedia.com /katzen.htm (763 words)

	German American Corner: Katzenjammer Kids on U.S Postage Stamp
		The Katzenjammer Kids was one of the first comics to use regular characters, sequential drawings, and cartoon symbols.
		In the introduction to the 1974 Dover Edition of the Katzenjammer Kids August Derleth writes, "Indeed, in a very real sense many early American comic strips and pages may be said to have had their inception in this tradition which stemmed...
		The ambiguous household would soon include--besides the kids and Mama--the Captain, the Inspector and, occasionally, Mama's brother Heinie.
	www.germanheritage.com /postal/katzenjammer/index.html (439 words)

	Comic Art & Graffix Gallery History of Comic Art
		It was Rudolph Dirk's "Katzenjammer Kids", which appeared on December 12, 1897 in the Journal American.
		Previously, cartoon panels had no in-panel dialogue, but in the Katzenjammer Kids dialogue was directly applied within a "word balloon" indicating the speaker.
		The Katzenjammers combined both the aspect of internal dialogue and panelized continuity, and in the process designed and solidified the form of the modern visual narrative strip.
	www.comic-art.com /history/history1.htm (795 words)

	Artists Biographies Part 1
		Rudolph Dirks (1877 - 1968)- The Katzenjammer Kids
		The Yellow Kid, who debuted in the NEW YORK WORLD in 1895, was the first successful character to appear in color, with a regular supporting cast, in a continuing titled series, with the written word integrated into the picture.
		The Yellow Kid's success launched a publishing war between William Randolph Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer, giving birth to the term "yellow journalism." In 1902, Outcault further distinguished himself by creating a second successful comic feature, BUSTER BROWN, which he produced until 1920.
	www.psu.edu /dept/inart10_110/inart10/stripbio1.html (1264 words)

	GLC Welcome Mat
		Hy also has the distinction of drawing and writing (since 1986) the oldest comic strip still in circulation, the Katzenjammer Kids.
		I did a Katzenjammer where the Captain's lining up people for a boat trip and a guy comes in and he asks him if he's had any experience.
		Kids would come by the ton and I was drawing and writing "Braccio di Ferro" over and over.
	www.ncs-glc.com /GLC/welcome_mat/welcome001.html (2061 words)

	How to become a cartoonist
		The Katzenjammer Kids were probably in the center of most of the controversies.
		So the Katzenjammer Kids were born, starring Fritz and Hans, Momma, the Captain and the Inspector.
		In addition to having given us the Katzenjammer Kids, we have Rudolph Dirks to thank for the comic strip as we know it today, with all its cartoon language and signs -- -- the dialogue balloons, speed lines, dust clouds, things which have not changed.
	www.chunkymonkey.com /funnies/beacartoonist3.htm (1300 words)

	Dirks's Bad Boys -- Monday, Mar. 04, 1957 -- Page 1 -- TIME
		At 79, Rudolph Dirks is the most tenacious cartoonist in the U.S., and at 60 his pen children, the Katzenjammer Kids, are the oldest inhabitants of the U.S. comic strips.
		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.
		But the kids caught on, soon gathered the supporting cast that still appears in both strips: long-suffering Mama; Der Inspector, a white-bearded truant officer; and Der Captain, a seafaring disciplinarian ("Spare der rod und spoil der brat"), who is Mama's star boarder and the pranksters' perennial victim.
	www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,862466-1,00.html (569 words)

	Diphy - Digital Philately - View Stamp (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Regardless of the fact that The Captain and the Kids was the work of the characters' originator and his son,The Katzenjammer Kids proved to be the most profitable and long-running, and The Captain and the Kids ended its run in 1979.
		A later series ofCaptain and the Kids cartoons were produced for television, as a back-up segment for Filmation'sArchie's TV Funnies.
		Art Clokey, the creator of Gumby, has claimed that The Katzenjammer Kids inspired the creation of Gumby's nemeses,The Block-heads.
	www.diphy.com /stamp/US1995.123 (1056 words)

	World Wide Words: Katzenjammer
		The Katzenjammer Kids featured Mamma Katzenjammer, her twin sons Hans and Fritz, and The Captain (who suffered so much from the mischief of the two boys).
		The strip was modelled on an earlier one in Germany, Max und Moritz, drawn by Wilhelm Busch, and the family was obviously ethnic German.
		Since the kids were not drunk but raucous, Rudolph Dirks seems to have caused the meaning of katzenjammer to extend somewhat.
	www.worldwidewords.org /weirdwords/ww-kat1.htm (229 words)

	www.myspace.com/katzkab
		After a year of work, we are proud to release the first album of Katzenjammer Kabarett.
		Moreover, it seems that with the Katzenjammer Kabarett, we have to look further than the mere cabaret commonplace shown by Bob Fosse in his famous movie, that's to say a post-Weimar cabaret more focused on social criticism and entertainment than on the creative process.
		Indeed, the idea of the cabaret, as they conceived it, must be linked to the conception the founders of the Cabaret Voltaire, or of other european artistic avant-garde cabarets, had during the 1910s-1920s.
	www.myspace.com /katzkab (863 words)

	The Independent Florida Alligator (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		UF graduate students Phil Sandifer, Stephanie Boluk and Chris "Tof" Eklund are the curators for the "Comics and Childhood from Katzenjammer Kids to Klarion."
		Comic books became a "mark of the lowest intelligence." "It's a shame comics were seen for kids, but not good enough for kids to read," Ault said.
		It is upsetting to Ault and members of the academic comic community that comic books are considered a subpar type of literary work, a reputation which de-emphasizes their narrative complexity.
	www.alligator.org /pt2/060223comic.php (696 words)

	boys clothing: American literary characters: Buster Brown
		R.F.Outcault's The Yellow Kid was enormously popular in America at the turn of the century.
		The Yello Kid, The Katzenjammer Kids and Buster Brown were a few of the earliest.
		The Yellow Kid, coupled with the artist's subsequent creations, Kelley's Kids, Pore Li'l Mose, Buddy Tucker, and Buster Brown, has firmly established R. Outcault as one of the most important comic artists of all time.
	histclo.com /lit/literaryusbuster.html (1325 words)

	Bob's Comics Reviews
		It's not that this was never done before (it was Mark Twain's early stock in trade), but despite the prevailing anarchy of early 20C comics, kids were almost always seen from the outside, whether as monsters (the Katzenjammer Kids) or as decorations in strips centering on adults.
		Of course, the kids are preternaturally articulate, and this too has been so widely adopted that it doesn't register as an innovation when you read the strip.
		Calvin's dysfunctional relationship with almost everyone (parents, teachers, kids next door) i s basically taken from Schulz; so is the frequent surrealism and abrupt comedowns (down to specific borrowings like the unlikely but hilarious snow sculptures, or a busybody spoiling a fantasy of crawling across the desert by bringing a drink).
	www.zompist.com /bob42.html (1146 words)

	Index to Comic Art Collection: "Dirick" to "Dirks"
		The kids can't speak but communicate in sign language, which luckily the Human Fly understands.
		"By the Sad Sea Waves" (Alphonse and Gaston and The Katzenjammer Kids, June 5, 1904) / Frederick Opper and Rudolph Dirks.
		The Katzenjammer Kids : early strips in full color / Rudolph Dirks ; with a new introduction by August Derleth.
	www.lib.msu.edu /comics/rri/drri/diri.htm (3502 words)

	Hangover -- Monday, May. 09, 1932 -- Page 1 -- TIME
		Rudolph Dirks's "Captain and the Kid's" which began as "The Katzenjammer Kids" (katzenjammer, literally "cat's cry," means "hangover" in contemporary German slang) is the oldest color page with a continuous existence in newspaper history.
		Meanwhile the Journal's new "Katzenjammer Kids" had struck popular fancy.
		Dibble's first "comic," indistinguishable from the original, unfolded an elaborate plot involving a weight-reducing machine, whereby the Kids got pies by the dozen, ice cream by the gallon, and put their parents into straitjackets.
	www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,743727,00.html (444 words)

	Rudolph Dirks
		Dirks submitted his sketches, Block dubbed them the Katzenjammer Kids, and the first strip appeared on December 12, 1897.
		After a lengthy and notorious legal battle, the federal courts ruled that Dirks had the right to continue to draw his characters for a rival newspaper chain, but that the Journal retained the right to the title Katzenjammer Kids.
		The Journal chose H.H. Knerr to continue the Katzenjammer Kids, and he and his successors have carried it on to the present day.
	www.sfcrowsnest.com /scifinder/a/Rudolph_Dirks.php (471 words)

	Reading Room Index to the Comic Art Collection
		Call no.: PN6728.K37M8 1970 ----------------------------------------------------- The Katzenjammer Kids : early strips in full color / Rudolph Dirks ; with a new introduction by August Derleth.
		Hans und Fritz / by R. Dirks, originator of the Katzenjammer Kids.
		Strips listed are The Little King, Polly and Her Pals, Thimble Theater, The Katzenjammer Kids, Bringing Up Father, Pogo, Betty Boop, Krazy Kat, Flash Gordon, and Li'l Abner.
	www.lib.msu.edu /comics/rri/krri/katzi.htm (3727 words)

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