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POSTCARDS OF 1904, "HAPPY HOOLIGAN",BY CARTOON STRIP ARTIST F.OPPER

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    Posted 9 years ago

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    PLEASE ENLARGE THESE 1904 VINTAGE POSTCARD IMAGES!!

    Happy Hooligan-----
    In 1899, Fredrick Burr Opper accepted an offer by William Randolph Hearst for a position with the New York Journal. His Happy Hooligan strip first appeared in the New York Journal in 1900, and it ran until 1932. Hooligan was a tramp with a little tin can hat whose gentle simplicity and bumbling good nature made him a success. On Happy's 30th birthday, Opper threw a party attended by President Hoover, former President Coolidge, Charles Schwab, Alfred E. Smith and others.

    In photo # 2 we see a part of a newspaper cartoon strip which depicts Happy Hooligan and his brothers Montmorency and Gloomy Gus

    Opper's other popular strips were Alphonse and Gaston, And Her Name Was Maud, Picture #3 PICTURE POSTCARD with "Maude the Mule" A Nightmare in the moon!!!..same era.(from the internet)--Very rare I don't have it. Howsan Lott and Our Antediluvian Ancestors. Beginning in 1904, Opper drew And Her Name Was Maud, about the kicking mule Maud, into comic strips, books and animation. On May 23, 1926, he positioned And Her Name Was Maud as the topper to Happy Hooligan, where it ran until both strips came to a conclusion on October 14, 1932.
    The name "Happy Hoolgan" became a by-word in American culture thru the 1940s, altho gone from print, we were not about to forget the beloved character that easily. There are quite a few postcards bearing his image and also the mule "Maude" . Get some of Opper's cards and add them to your collection. Not all were signed---just look for the tin can "hat"! Ha Ha!

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