A Crowded Life in Comics – Rudolph Dirks

–Rudolph Dirks panel 1917–



The Other Katzenjammer Kids



by Rick Marschall

In these installments of memoirs I will return more than once to Rudolph Dirks, the father of the comic strip. He was the primal source of sequential panels, a cast of characters, and the signs and symbols of cartoonists – motion lines, stars of pain, dotted vision lines, etc. – originating, or at least codifying