Back in the pre-World War II era, cartoonists often had an entire page to fill in the Sunday color sections. In addition tot he featured strip, they often added a topper-- a shorter strip with another group of characters to provide a little variety on the page. H.H. Knerr, the primary artist on
The Katzenjammer Kids for almost thirty years created
Dinglehoofer Und His Dog to top the Kids. If you're familiar with the former, you'll recognize some consistencies between the two. Anyway, here are a few examples of what weekly readers got from Herr Dinglehoofer back in the late thirties.
Back in the pre-World War II era, cartoonists often had an entire page to fill in the Sunday color sections. In addition tot he featured strip, they often added a topper-- a shorter strip with another group of characters to provide a little variety on the page. H.H. Knerr, the primary artist on The Katzenjammer Kids for almost thirty years created Dinglehoofer Und His Dog to top the Kids. If you're familiar with the former, you'll recognize some consistencies between the two. Anyway, here are a few examples of what weekly readers got from Herr Dinglehoofer back in the late thirties.
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