Rudolph Dirks
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Rudolph Dirks was an American cartoonist who was one of the earliest and most noted comic strip artists, well known for The Katzenjammer Kids.
Rudolph Dirks in 1914
Dirks's self-caricature
Rudolph Dirks's The Captain and the Kids (January 21, 1945)
Wilhelm Busch
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Heinrich Christian Wilhelm Busch was a German humorist, poet, illustrator, and painter. He published wildly innovative illustrated tales that remain influential to this day.
Rudolph Dirks
…feature, Down in Hogan's Alley, better known as the Yellow Kid, starting in 1895. Editor Rudolph Block asked Dirks to develop a Sunday comic based on Wilhelm Busch's cautionary tale, Max and Moritz. When Dirks submitted his sketches, Block dubbed them The Katzenjammer Kids, and the first strip appeared on December…
The house in which Busch was born, Wiedensahl, 2008
A scene from Max and Moritz
Wilhelm Busch, 1860
Wilhelm Busch, ca. 1882