[P]ingcognito

It Happened on
December 09, 1897

“La Fronde. A major daily newspaper. Political and literary. Managed, administrated and compiled exclusively BY WOMEN. In the French population women are in the majority…Women pay taxes which they have no say in approving; their manual labour and intellectual work contribute to the wealth of the nation and they claim the right to be allowed to voice their opinion on all questions affecting society and humanity, of which they are members on a par with men.”

- Marguerite Durand, French stage actress, journalist, and a leading suffragette

Meanwhile…

The comic strip The Katzenjammer Kids debuts in the New York Journal.

280 days later…

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It Happened on
December 12, 1897

One of the first ethnic comic strips, The Katzenjammer Kids, debuted in the funny pages of Sunday newspapers beginning in December of 1897. The comic strip followed the antics of German twins, Hans and Fritz, and their mother, Momma Katzenjammers. It may be viewed as offensive by today’s standards, but during its heyday, The Katzenjammer Kids was thought to be clever in its depiction of the German culture. Let’s take a look at this century old comic strip. (Source: History Daily)

The Katzenjammer Kids is an American comic strip created by Rudolph Dirks in 1897 and later drawn by Harold Knerr for 35 years (1914 to 1949).[2] It debuted December 12, 1897, in the American Humorist, the Sunday supplement of William Randolph Hearst’s New York Journal. The comic strip was turned into a stage play in 1903. It inspired several animated cartoons and was one of 20 strips included in the Comic Strip Classics series of U.S. commemorative postage stamps. [wikipedia]

Meanwhile…

The first issue of the feminist newspaper La Fronde is published by Marguerite Durand in Paris.

280 days later…

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