Quick Quiz:
Who holds the Guinness World Record for the First Animal Cartoon?
You want hints?
He was a goat.
And his newspaper comic strip ended 100 years ago - the dailies in February of 1917, the Sunday strips a few months later.
(But he did return as a Topper for another comic with his final appearance being over 15 years later)
He starred in at least 15 cartoons produced in 1913 & 1914 by Selig Polyscope, the people who brought you Tom Mix, Harold Lloyd (who brought you Jackie Chan), the 1910 Wonderful Wizard Of Oz film, Fatty Arbuckle, andBomba, The Jungle Boy Wamba, Child Of The Jungle. (But Wamba came first, by over a dozen years)
Worked it out?
No?
Want me to shut up and stop trying to make a spoiler gap of words here and just get on with it?
Very well. Ladies, Gentlemen, and those still working it out, or who have come to a different destination, may we present-
Old Doc Yak is one of the latest finds excavated in my Comic Archeology digging expeditions.
Join us tomorrow for a trip back 100 years (and 105 years) for the beginning and end of this uniquely creative early comic. (And learn the Answer to who replaced him successfully for the next 42 years.)
Who holds the Guinness World Record for the First Animal Cartoon?
You want hints?
He was a goat.
And his newspaper comic strip ended 100 years ago - the dailies in February of 1917, the Sunday strips a few months later.
(But he did return as a Topper for another comic with his final appearance being over 15 years later)
He starred in at least 15 cartoons produced in 1913 & 1914 by Selig Polyscope, the people who brought you Tom Mix, Harold Lloyd (who brought you Jackie Chan), the 1910 Wonderful Wizard Of Oz film, Fatty Arbuckle, and
Worked it out?
No?
Want me to shut up and stop trying to make a spoiler gap of words here and just get on with it?
Very well. Ladies, Gentlemen, and those still working it out, or who have come to a different destination, may we present-
Old Doc Yak is one of the latest finds excavated in my Comic Archeology digging expeditions.
Join us tomorrow for a trip back 100 years (and 105 years) for the beginning and end of this uniquely creative early comic. (And learn the Answer to who replaced him successfully for the next 42 years.)
