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(56) Happy Hooligan Makes a Grand Hit! 1911.
Published June 18, 1911.
India ink and watercolor over graphite underdrawing.
Art Wood Collection of Cartoon and Caricature
Prints and Photographs Division
LC-DIG-ppmsca-03301 (56)
Hapless Happy Hooligan, a kind-hearted hobo always a little down on his luck, debuted in the comics pages in 1900. As depicted here, he was a willing soul who often found himself tricked into predicaments. Frederick Opper (1857-1937), the cartoonist, had a long career drawing sequential art and single panel cartoons in such weekly magazines as Frank Leslie's Illustrated News and Puck, before William Randolph Hearst lured him to the New York Journal. A prodigious artist, he created political cartoons, comic strips, and illustrations before his failing eyesight forced him into retirement in 1932. |