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The Daily Strip:
Weekday black-and-white comic strips appeared several times a week in William Randolph Hearst's newspapers by the early 1900s. Bud Fisher created the first successful daily strip with "Mutt and Jeff" (originally "A. Mutt"), which was an overnight phenomenon in the San Francisco Chronicle. Interest in daily strips soared. In 1912, Hearst introduced the first daily full page of comics in his New York Evening Journal. It was widely copied. Early comics reflected and reinforced prevailing racial attitudes of the era, stereotypically portraying immigrants and minorities as savages, servants or, at best, sidekicks. |