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Society Is Nix: Gleeful Anarchy at the Dawn of the American Comic Strip 1895-1915 #[nn]
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This volume collects a vibrant selection of comic strips from the dawn of American newspaper comics, spanning 1895 to 1915. It showcases the wild, irreverent humor and experimental visual storytelling that defined the era, featuring works from pioneering cartoonists who shaped the medium's early identity. The collection emphasizes the gleeful anarchy and social satire that made these strips a cultural phenomenon in the pre-WWI years.
Contains 166 stories
Happy Hooligan Looped the Loop!
On the Tramp
Mr Dibbs Goes to Pikes Peak and Comes Back Again
Mr. Titbury's Turkey
He Was So Smart!
Expression
The Bud and Blossom of the Yellow Kid--His First and Latest Appearance
The Telltale Lather
Mooney Miggles and the Magic Cap
The Pinochle Twins Show Aunt Tina Some Stunts
Die Fineheimer Twins Make a Circus
Die Fineheimer Twins (introduction)
Pooh! Who Cares for a Little Vetting, Anyway?
Die Fineheimer Twins Give Everybody a Christmas Present, But Oh My!
The Oracle Speaks to the King
Script HamptonPencils HamptonInks HamptonLetters Hampton
Some Egyptian Comics from the Papers of the Time of Rameses I
Training for the Football Championship ...
The Yellow Kid
The Yellow Kid Introduces a Monk ...
The Yellow Kid
The Yellow Kid Indulges in a Cock Fight ...
The Yellow Kid
How Cholly Was Hoist with His Own Petard
The New Year's Fangy [sic!] Dress Ball in McFadden's Flats
The Yellow Kid
Nothing like shaving yourself ...
The Yellow Kid's New Phonograph Clock
The Yellow Kid
Ach, Those Katzenjammer Kids!
The Katzenjammer brothersthe Captain
High Life in Paris ...
The Yellow Kid
All Sorts of Sports and Midsummer Madness ...
Hogan's Alley Handicap Stakes ...
The Yellow Kid
The Crowd Gets up an Election Bonfire ...
The Yellow Kid
Actor and Man
Wie Trane Fore Our Fite With Fittssimmonz
Saved by a Punctured Tire--The Horseshoes That Helped an Elopement
How the Four-Headed Monster Got a Good Dinner
The Dough and the Cat
The Katzenjammer Kids (now down to two)Mamma
The Cop Is Coming!
Is It Possible that Messrs. George and Alexander Put up a Job on the Journal Tigers?
Yellow Kid? Ach No! It's Only the Katzenjammer Kid -
HansFritz
The Katzenjammer Kids Change Grandpa's Glasses
HansFritzMammaGrandpa
Untitled Humor story
An Illustrated Geography Lesson
Who's that Lady I Saw You with?
How the Family of Acrobats Skipped Their Bord Bill in Professional Style
The Four Seasons
The Quaker Kids at Atlantic City
A Mean "Low-Down" Trick
Jimmy's Mamma Takes Him to an Artist's Studio
Women's Craze for Animal Pets vs. Babies ...
The Dizzy Dream of Reuben Clue
He Has a Short, But Exciting Season on the Stage
What Those Sweet Little Katzenjammer Kids Were Dreaming
The Accident Lawyer
Some Things We Could Send to the Paris Exhibition ...
Harlem in Fifteen Minutes ...
Script various
Ladies and Gentlemen, Permit Us to Introduce Our Little Friends, the Mannikins
Moving Day in the Jungle
Uncle Reuben and the Automobile! / In Nature's Fun-Shop / Insectiverous Idiosyncracies
Grand Congress of the Comic Artists of America
How Mr. Smith-Jones Moved in Spite of the Landlord and His Lease
A Prophetic Vision of the 20th Century
The First Time They Ever Broke Anything
Maggie MurphyDelia Donningan
Foxy Grandpa Teaches the Boys a Lesson
The Troubles of Noah
Opening Night of Italian Opera on Mt. Ararat
Such a Mix-Up!
HansFritzHans' and Fritz' motherHappy HooliganNero, a dogtwo owlsa Keystone Cops type police officer
Too Much for Any One Man to Believe
Dr. Quack and His Patients
Some Monkey Fun from Jungle Jinks
Alice's Adventures in Funnyland
A Fire at the Kennel Club ...
Ladendorf's Patent Back-Action Feline Destroyer in Actual Use
How Cholly Proved Himself a Man of Ideas
Bryans's Blacks in Various December Scenes
Buster Brown & Pore Lil Mose
Buster BrownLil Mose
Buster Brown's Experience at the Dentist's
Our Santos-Dumont Aerial Future
How Fido Exchanged the Umbrella
The King of the Ticket Scalpers
See the Maiden So All Forlorn
Languid Leary and His Wonderful Tomato Can
Action ...
Race Track Expressions
Future Possibilities of Wireless Telegraphy
Johnny's Valentine
A-Maying
The Wasps Make It Warm for Turnpike Pete
The Fight on the Asylum Wall
He Is Not Out of Jail Three Minutes Before He Is Locked Up Again
Hugo Hercules Misses the Football, but -
Mr. Esau Substitutes Cocoanuts for Ostrich Eggs ...
Simon Simple Tries a New Stunt
The Katzenjammers Celebrate Christmas
HansFritzHappy HooliganThe CaptainMomma
A Days Doings with Absent Minded Uncle Amos -
The Katzenjammer Kids Could Not Tell a Lie
HansFritzdogs from Happy Hooligan stripkids from Happy Hooligan stripMommaThe Captain
There Were Eight of Them
Lady Bountiful Is Crowned Queen of the May
Toodles and the Unfortunate Strawberry Tart
Buster Brown Earns a Five Dollar Bill
Brainy Bowers Works Them Both
Leander Takes Lulu and Her Parents Out for Camping
Alphonse and Gaston Assist Their Friend Leon to Elope with His Affinity
An Antediluvian New Year's Call
Free Lunch at Twelve ...
Their First Evening at Home
Panhandle Pete Looks for Rest in a Busy City
The Boston Tea Party
The Kid Has a Picnic - But It Was No Picnic for Papa
The Captain Had a Fine Swim, but ...
"Just because I am queer," said the Mutt.
Blase Tater Sports
Untitled Humor story
The Angel Child Shows Cousin Lena the City Sights
Oliver and Alma Have Trouble with the Politicians
Buster Brown on the Strand
But They Didn't Get the Fifty Cents!
Simon Simple Leaves It to Mose to Collect the Reward
He Rushes to Get Mr. Jones!
The Finish of Cholly Cashcaller
Untitled Humor story
Dear Reader Please Permit Us to Present to You Sam!
Betrayed by the Katydids
"Wags" the Dog that Adopts a Man
Our Funny Section's Happy Family Will Have an Exciting Fourth
He Puts Dynamite in the Czart's Punching Bag
Untitled Humor story
Why the Funny Side Folks Were Late at the Kid's Christmas Dinner
Happy Hooligan Had a Dream About the Leaning Tower of Pisa
Our Hero's Hairbreadth Escapes
Mr. Pest. Book Agent
A Quiet Day in St. Petersburg
Dear Old Alphonse, Gaston and Leon!
HansFritzThe CaptainMammaAlphonseGastonLeon
Little Nemo was just being prepared for another attempt ...
Major Ozone's Fresh Air Crusade
Untitled Humor story
Untitled Humor story
Oh Dear! Oh Dear! Oh Dear! Oh Dear!
Let's start now, Oscar!
Over Niagara for Romeo
Untitled Humor story
Untitled Humor story
Untitled Drama story
He Meets the Dear Little Katzenjammer Kids!
JimmyHansFritzJimmy's baby brotherThe CaptainJimmy's parents
Untitled Humor story
Untitled Humor story
Untitled Humor story
Yes, It's True that Napoleon Has Got Another Tooth
He Owns a Camera
Untitled Humor story
Have I ever been to the South Pole?
Gives the Grassville "Ossifers" the Blue Slip!
Willie! Joy! Oh, Gentle Spring!
He Shows Those City Cousins of His that They're Not So All-Fired Smart As They Think They Are
Untitled Humor story
Lena undt Loui Tooks Lessons Midt Art
Slim Jim Gives Grassville a Rousing Reception!
My! But the Katzenjammers Are Rich!
Untitled Humor story
Mrs. Bump's Boarding House
Uncle Jim Sees the Goat Star
Untitled Humor story
Mamma's Angel Child Has a Cubist Nightmare ...
Untitled Humor story
Untitled Humor story
Father Has Not Yet Seen Everything
Here Dey Iss!
Der Captain Inherits 57,000,000,000 Pfennigs
Untitled Humor story
Genial GeneSimp SimpsonOld Doc QuackCarloCrackersCarolineHi Hopper
The Killie King Kan't Katch the Killie Kaptives
Makes a Wager on the Election
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Full credits
writer, artist, inker, letterer Frederick Burr Opper
Reprints
↩ Reprints Le Docteur Festus #[nn] (1860), Max und Moritz #[nn] (1865), The Ups and Downs of Ally Sloper #[nn] (1882), Ally Sloper's Half Holiday #75 (1885), Comic Pictorial Nuggets #27 (1892), American Humorist #7 (1896), American Humorist #11 (1896), American Humorist #18 (1897), American Humorist #19 (1897), American Humorist #55 (1897), American Humorist #60 (1897), American Humorist #64 (1898), On and Off the Ark: A Series of Comic Pictures #[nn] (1902), Pore Lil Mose: His Letters to His Mammy #[nn] (1903), The Katzenjammer Kids #[1904] (1904), Jimmy, A Series of Comic Pictures #[nn] (1905), Dreams of the Rarebit Fiend #[nn] (1905), Maud the Mirthful Mule #[nn] (1906), Happy Hooligan Home Again #[nn] (1907), Buster Brown on His Travels #[nn] (1910), American Humorist #71
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