GRGR(22) - Katzenjammer Kids

[Paul Mackin]

JBFRAME at aol.com wrote:
> 
> In a message dated 03/17/2000 10:19:55 AM Pacific Standard Time,
> fqmorris at hotmail.com writes:
> 
> << In the early decades of the strip's existence, the Katzenjammer family
>  engaged in adventures all over the world.  Ultimately, they settled on a
>  tropical island.  But, wherever they were, the continuing and repeated theme
>  centered around the ability of Hans and Fritz to pull creative pranks, get
>  into trouble as a result, and end up being hunted down or spanked over
>  someone's knee in the last panel. >>
> 
> I must point out that the tropical milieu of the Captain & the Kids is an
> eerie cartoon verson of a pre-1914 German African colony.  Some of the
> characters are obviously African.  Also, Katzenjammer is German for Hangover.

The Katzenjammer Kids appeared only in the Hearst papers I think. If
one's household subscribed to whatever was the local rival paper (L.A.
Times in my case) there would be a very similar strip called "Captain
and the Kids. One of those cases where the original artist quits and
goes off somewhere else to to essentially the same work.

					P.