HAPPY HOOLIGAN A Complete Compilation 1904-1905

The Hyperion Library Classic American Comic Strips Happy Hooligan A Complete Compilation 1904-1905. The Hyperion Library Classic American Comic Strips Happy Hooligan A Complete Compilation 1904-1905. Frederick Burr Opper was already a successful cartoonist/illustrator for the prestigious Puck magazine when William Randolph Hearst lured him out to create a comic strip for the New York Journal. While a step-down from (relatively) high to low brow, Opper jumped at the chance and out came Happy Hooligan” an un-heroized vagrant who ends up very badly at the end of each strip, no matter how much good he might mean. His perennial demise surely went on to inspire Wile E. Coyote or Mr. O, especially as his own cowardice and unworthiness contributes to his hilarious woes. This is part of the Hyperion Library of Classic American Comic Strips and a complete compilation of the strip. 109 black & white strips plus other illustrations.