Gene Ahern
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Eugene Leslie Ahern was a cartoonist best known for his bombastic Major Hoople, a pompous character who appeared in the long-run syndicated gag panel Our Boarding House. Many of Ahern's comic strips t
Gene Ahern's Room and Board (May 2, 1952)
Room and Board (comic strip)
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Room and Board is the title of two American comic strips. The first, created by Sals Bostwick, debuted on May 21, 1928. He drew it until his death in 1930, after which it was continued by cartoonists
Gene Ahern
…making an annual $35,000 at NEA, and King Features Syndicate offered to double that figure. Leaving NEA in March 1936 for King Features, Ahern created Room and Board (1936–1953). A resident in that boarding house was Judge Puffle, very much in the Hoople tradition. Don Markstein traced the proliferation of Puffle…
Gene Ahern's Room and Board (December 22, 1943)
Gene Ahern's Room and Board (October 10, 1943)
Gene Ahern's Room and Board (June 19, 1938)