[The Captain talking with the Katzenjammer kids] – Antique Print
![[The Captain talking with the Katzenjammer kids], [between 1903 and 1904] — historic drawing](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/04/0411f0e1e5f8-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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This historic drawing of [The Captain talking with the Katzenjammer kids] brings a moment of history to your wall. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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[The Captain talking with the Katzenjammer kids]
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Here the Captain, the gruff adult who is forever trying to keep order, faces the two mischievous Katzenjammer kids, Hans and Fritz, in a scene built on their constant troublemaking. Rudolph Dirks, who signed this drawing "Rudie," created the strip for the New York Journal in 1897, and it became one of the most popular comics of its era. The ink, watercolor and white-gouache original shows the bold linework and flat color that made the strip stand out on the page. The drawing was later shown in the 1990 exhibition The Art of the Comic Strip, which reflects how early comics came to be treated as art.
| Created / published | [between 1903 and 1904] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 drawing : ink, watercolor and opaque white over pencil. |
| Genre | Lied Discovery Children's Museum, 1990. |
| Notes | Signed lower right: Rudie. Copyright attributed to King Features Syndicate, Inc. (DLC/PP-1992:227.150). Exhibited in The Art of the Comic Strip |
| Subjects | Children & adults--1900-1910. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,732 × 4,657 px · prints to 12 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-221845 |
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