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1900s in comics

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This is a timeline of significant events in comics in the 1900s.

Contents

U.S. publications

  • March 11: first publication of Happy Hooligan by Frederick Burr Opper in the Hearst newspaper Sunday pages.

    • U.S. publications

  • January 2: first appearance of Major Ozone's Fresh Air Crusade by George Herriman, syndicated by World Color Printing Co.
  • February 14: first appearance of Little Jimmy by Jimmy Swinnerton in the New York Journal.
  • July 24: first appearance of Little Sammy Sneeze by Winsor McCay in New York Herald.
  • September 10: first appearance of Dreams of the Rarebit Fiend by McCay under the pseudonym Silas, in Evening Telegram.

    • Chinese publications

  • Unknown date: Journal of Current Pictorial

    • European publications

  • February 2: first appearance of Bécassine drawn by Joseph Pinchon, in La Semaine de Suzette.

    • U.S. publications

  • January 8: first appearance of The Story of Hungry Henrietta by Winsor McCay.
  • June 26: first appearance of A Pilgrim’s Progress by McCay.
  • October 15: first publication of Little Nemo in Slumberland by McCay in New York Herald.
  • Unknown date: a collection of McCay's Dreams of the Rarebit Fiend strips is published by the Frederick A. Stokes Company of New York.

    • 1908

  • Harold R. Heaton joins the Inter-Ocean newspaper as an editorial cartoonist.

    • U.S. publications

  • November 1: first appearance of The Umbrella Man by John Hager for the Seattle Daily Times, appearing on the front page as a supplement for the weather. Not titled as the Umbrella Man, but called that May 3, 1913, under a section called "Features of Today's Paper".

    • References

    1900s in comics Wikipedia
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