![]() Likewise he retained the rights when he transferred from Hearst's King Features Syndicate to the Wheeler Syndicate, in a deal where Fisher received 60% of the gross revenue, making him a wealthy man. Copyright Office-thereby allowing him to retain the rights and take the strip with him to the Examiner. Fisher had inserted a copyright notice of his own into the last strip he drew for The Chronicle-and registered the copyright with the U.S. After only a few weeks, the success of Mutt and Jeff brought the strip to William Randolph Hearst's attention, and he hired Fisher away to the San Francisco Examiner. Mutt is considered the first daily strip because it's the one that sparked a trend in that direction, which continues to this day" ( Toonopedia). ![]() Piker Clerk, which appeared daily for The Chicago American in 1903. Fisher's strip was very similar to cartoonist Clare Briggs' A. Mutt (later renamed Mutt & Jeff) began on November 15, 1907" ( Don Markstein's Toonopedia). But Fisher finally prevailed, paving the way for the feature now generally regarded as the world's first daily comic strip. "It took Fisher two years to talk him into it. Young an idea for a comics feature in the form of a "strip" stretching the width of the newspaper page. We give some of Mutt's earlier adventures and end with his most recent, thereby covering the most important events in the life of this eccentric gentleman and his side kick, Little Jeff."įisher was a sports cartoonist for The San Francisco Chronicle in the early 1900s when he proposed to his editor John P. It can readily be seen that it would be almost impossible to place this entire collection in one book… Not desiring to put the crusher on the marketing of this flock of debris, we have been forced to make a selection of a number of the most representative pictures, selected from the various periods of Mutt's career. This is a selection of strips from the first three years of the Mutt and Jeff cartoons, as Fisher notes in the Preface: "The Mutt and Jeff cartoons have been running daily in the Hearst papers for three years, making a total of close onto one thousand pictures. ![]() "Although Sunday comic strips had existed for more than a decade, the San Francisco Chronicle became the first newspaper to print a daily cartoon in 1907 with the appearance of Bud Fisher's 'Mutt and Jeff'" (ANB). Oblong 16mo (15-1/2 by 5-1/2 inches), original half brown cloth, original illustrated boards 32 leaves.įirst edition of the first Mutt and Jeff collection, printing 60 classic strips from the first three years of the first daily comic strip, which went on to become a fixture in daily newspapers and American popular culture for decades, consistently one of the most popular comic strips until its demise in 1983. Boston: The Ball Publishing Company, 1910. THE FIRST DAILY COMIC STRIP: BUD FISHER'S MUTT AND JEFF, 1910 FIRST EDITIONįISHER, Bud.
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