I want to say something about Bud Fisher's MUTT AND JEFF , if not the literal " first comic strip " , essentially the first widely-successful one .
It is re-run at gocomics.com/muttandjeff.........
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Thanks for the heads up on the reruns. I've not seen much of this strip.
When he started All-American Max Gaines held reprint rights to Mutt & Jeff, so it appeared in All-American Comics and a title that was continued by DC until 1958.
Fisher employed ghosts on the strip. According to the Lambiek website these included Billy Liverpool, Ed Mack and Al Smith, the last of whom stayed on the feature for decades. Lambiek also says, on its pages on the artists, that George Herriman and the young Maurice Sendak assisted on the strip, and that Joe Dennett drew Mutt and Jeff comics for Harvey in the Silver Age. The GCD tells me the feature passed to Harvey after a period at Dell.
Incidentally, you might've put the thread in the wrong forum. I'm told you can change the forum using the Options menu in the post at the start of the thread. Go into "Edit Discussion" and look for the drop down "Category" menu.
I've moved it.
According to Wikipedia Mutt and Jeff appeared in live action short movies in 1911-12 and in a long series of cartoons from 1916.
There is a hardcover of early Mutt & Jeff strips available from... oh, the same publisher which reprinted a collection of early Bring Up Father strips. Some of those early animated cartoons are available on the Popeye DVD sets.
...What forum did I put it in originally ?
As for M&J movies , though I believe IMDB neglects to list them , post-sound there were some M&J shorts which were , apparently , colorized AND soundized versions of some silents , though with no dialogue , just effects , grunting/whatever like a lot of Max Fleisher cartoons/others then had doe by the characters and some 1930s dance band music dubbed on...........
These used to show up on thise swapmeet/discount drugstore cheapo VHSs of old and now , yeah , there appears , in fact , to be at least one DVD documentary apparently combining various of the silent and sound shorts with a " Mutt & Jeff Story "...
You had it in "Movies & TV."
...Okay , I have tried to re-edit the above link to actually take you to GoComics' page for that day's M&J , but it hasn't gone through...Perhaps some nice Mod could do so , please:-)?????????
Sheldon Mayer may have done some original material for the DC Comics version which appeared in both ALL-AMERICAN COMICS monthly and an originally quarterly 64-page epymomous title IIRC , which would certainly burn the material fast...While DC bears the distinction of being the first , widely successful/long-running anyway , comic book company to concentrate on original material , obviously , they chose to make an exception for such a popular strip as M&J...I recall Sol Harrison?? or some other DC old-timer , in an interview , saying something like:
" Oh , in the early 40s we had 97% , 98% , sellthrough on SUPERMAN and MUTT & JEFF ( ! ) ( Emphasis - Likewise here ! - mine . ) . It was wonderful " !
I did some editing of the Wikipedia entry on M&J a ways ago but it may have been taken down , along with other stuff ( accurate ) by me , maybe by Wiki itself...They can be pretty pissant-y at times :--:-(...
...OK , thank you , there is a reason beyond even what I have put up already that I put it there...Or that's my story and nobody's gettin' me off it , see ?!!:-)...
Here's the 25 March 2012 Mutt & Jeff strip.
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