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Sunday color pages gave cartoonists room to draw whole neighborhoods, build a joke around a staircase, or send readers back through the same panel upside down. Daily strips worked in a narrower space. These surviving American newspaper comics show how artists used both formats from 1895 to 1930.

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Hogan's Alley
Hogan's Alley: R. F. Outcault packs an improvised circus into one color panel in the May 5, 1895, New York World. The bald…
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The Katzenjammer Kids
The Katzenjammer Kids: Rudolph Dirks sends Hans and Fritz after Santa Claus in the December 11, 1898, New York Journal and…
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The Upside-Downs of Little Lady Lovekins and Old Man Muffaroo
The Upside-Downs of Little Lady Lovekins and Old Man Muffaroo: Gustave Verbeek's October 4, 1903, New York Herald pilot…
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Alphonse and Gaston
Alphonse and Gaston: In Frederick Burr Opper's July 3, 1904, Sunday page, Alphonse, Gaston, and Leon all insist that…
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Dream of the Rarebit Fiend
Dream of the Rarebit Fiend: Winsor McCay signed this January 28, 1905, New York Evening Telegram strip as Silas. A bed…
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Buster Brown
Buster Brown: In this February 26, 1905, New York Herald page by R. F. Outcault, Buster lets captured mice loose during his…
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Happy Hooligan
Happy Hooligan: Frederick Burr Opper drops his unlucky hero into the House of Lords in the April 9, 1905, New York American…
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Little Sammy Sneeze
Little Sammy Sneeze: Winsor McCay builds the same small movement through the early panels of this September 24, 1905, New…
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The Kin-der-Kids
The Kin-der-Kids: Lyonel Feininger's young adventurers sail out in a bathtub in the May 6, 1906, Chicago Sunday Tribune…
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The Explorigator
The Explorigator: In Harry Grant Dart's July 5, 1908, Detroit Free Press page, the crew explores a cavern on the moon…
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Their Only Child
Their Only Child: George McManus's 1912 Sunday strip follows the well-to-do parents of Snookums, the family introduced in…
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Mutt and Jeff
Mutt and Jeff: In this 1913 daily by Bud Fisher, a newspaper ad sends a would-be motorcycle officer to the police station…
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Krazy Kat
Krazy Kat: In George Herriman's first full Sunday page, published April 23, 1916, in the New York American, an ice-cream…
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Harold Teen
Harold Teen: Carl Ed introduced Harold in the May 4, 1919, Chicago Sunday Tribune. Harold boasts that girls don't interest…
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Gasoline Alley
Gasoline Alley: In Frank King's February 20, 1921, Chicago Sunday Tribune page, Walt Wallet finds himself looking after…
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Barney Google and Spark Plug
Barney Google and Spark Plug: Billy DeBeck's September 5, 1926, Chicago Herald and Examiner page turns a baseball game into…
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Polly and Her Pals
Polly and Her Pals: Cliff Sterrett draws a familiar home as a room full of inflated shapes in this September 26, 1926…
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The Gumps
The Gumps: Sidney Smith’s September 9, 1928, Spokesman-Review page continues a jungle rescue. A written recap sets up the…
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Tarzan of the Apes
Tarzan of the Apes: In the January 7, 1929, debut, Hal Foster illustrates the opening of Edgar Rice Burroughs's Tarzan of…
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Thimble Theatre
Thimble Theatre: E. C. Segar introduces Popeye in the January 17, 1929, daily strip. The dockside job interview gives the…
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Bringing Up Father
Bringing Up Father: George McManus sets this November 3, 1929, Nashville Tennessean Sunday page around a meal. The…

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