biography
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| male
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| lived:
| (1877–1968)
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| biography:
| Strip cartoonist, born in Heinde, C Germany. His family moved to Chicago when he was seven. He started selling joke cartoons to Life magazine in 1894, then joined the New York Journal where he created the long-running strip, The Katzenjammer Kids (1897). He later retitled his characters as The Captain and the Kids (1914), while the original Katzenjammer Kids continued in parallel for decades. He retired in 1958, and his strip was continued by his son, John. |
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