Frederick Burr Opper

His father was an Austria n Immigrant , probably of Jewish descent, who had settled in Madison, Ohio. At age 14, Opper left school and began working as a printer's devil for a local paper. Two years later he moved to New York City and began submitting illustrations and cartoons to the illustrated weekly magazines. He soon joined the staff of " Puck (magazine) ", the most popular American illustrated magazine of the late nineteenth century, where he worked for 18 years. In 1899 he was hired away from the magazine to work for William Randolph Hearst 's newspapers, where he served as both a political cartoonist and as a pioneer in the emerging form of the comic strip in the weekly newspaper supplements. Among his most famous and influential series were '' And Her Name Was Maud '', '' Happy Hooligan '', and '' Alphonse & Gaston ''.

Happy Hooligan was one of the early Twentieth Century comic strips Art Spiegelman used in his '' In The Shadow Of No Towers '' ( 2001 ).

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