1900s in comics
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See also: List of years in comics
This is a timeline of significant events in comics in the 1900s.
1900[edit | edit source]
U.S. publications[edit | edit source]
- March 11: first publication of Happy Hooligan by Frederick Burr Opper in the Hearst newspaper Sunday pages.[1]
1904[edit | edit source]
U.S. publications[edit | edit source]
- January 2: first appearance of Major Ozone's Fresh Air Crusade by George Herriman, syndicated by World Color Printing Co.[2]
- February 14: first appearance of Little Jimmy by Jimmy Swinnerton in the New York Journal.[3]
- July 24: first appearance of Little Sammy Sneeze by Winsor McCay in New York Herald.[4]
- September 10: first appearance of Dreams of the Rarebit Fiend by McCay under the pseudonym Silas, in Evening Telegram.[5]
1905[edit | edit source]
Chinese publications[edit | edit source]
- Unknown date: Journal of Current Pictorial
European publications[edit | edit source]
- February 2: first appearance of Bécassine drawn by Joseph Pinchon, in La Semaine de Suzette.[6][7]
U.S. publications[edit | edit source]
- January 8: first appearance of The Story of Hungry Henrietta by Winsor McCay.[8]
- June 26: first appearance of A Pilgrim’s Progress by McCay.
- October 15: first publication of Little Nemo in Slumberland by McCay in New York Herald.[9]
- Unknown date: a collection of McCay's Dreams of the Rarebit Fiend strips is published by the Frederick A. Stokes Company of New York.
1908[edit | edit source]
- Harold R. Heaton joins the Inter-Ocean newspaper as an editorial cartoonist.
1909[edit | edit source]
U.S. publications[edit | edit source]
- November 1: first appearance of The Umbrella Man by John Hager for the Seattle Daily Times, appearing on the front page as a supplement for the weather.[10] Not titled as the Umbrella Man, but called that May 3, 1913 under a section called "Features of Today's Paper".
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ Don Markstein's Toonopedia. "Happy Hooligan".
- ↑ Don Markstein's Toonopedia. "Major Ozone's Fresh Air Crusade".
- ↑ Don Markstein's Toonopedia. "Little Jimmy".
- ↑ Don Markstein's Toonopedia. "Little Sammy Sneeze".
- ↑ Don Markstein's Toonopedia. "Dreams of the Rarebit Fiend".
- ↑ Labé, Yves-Marie. "Bécassine débarque" (in French). Le Monde.
- ↑ Radio France. "1905-2005 : Bécassine fête ses 100 ans" (in French).
- ↑ The Story of Hungry Henrietta, www.barnaclepress.com
- ↑ Don Markstein's Toonopedia. "Little Nemo in Slumberland".
- ↑ Seattle Daily Times, November 1, 1909, page 1.