February 26 is the birthday of cartoonist Rudolph Dirks (1877-1968), papa of The Katzenjammer Kids. Dirks was a German immigrant who settled with his family in Chicago. By the 1890s he was in New York working as an illustrator. In 1897 his editor at The New York Journal asked him to work up a strip to compete […]
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 10:29AM on February 26, 2019