1900s in comics
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This is a timeline of significant events in comics in the 1900s.
Contents
1900
U.S. publications
- March 11: first publication of Happy Hooligan by Frederick Burr Opper in the Hearst newspaper Sunday pages.[1]
1904
U.S. publications
- 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
Chinese publications
- Unknown date: Journal of Current Pictorial
European publications
- February 2: first appearance of Bécassine drawn by Joseph Pinchon, in La Semaine de Suzette.[6][7]
U.S. publications
- 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
- Harold R. Heaton joins the Inter-Ocean newspaper as an editorial cartoonist.
1909
U.S. publications
- 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
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- ↑ The Story of Hungry Henrietta, www.barnaclepress.com
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- ↑ Seattle Daily Times, November 1, 1909, page 1.