Vintage GERMAN MAJOLICA Katzenjammer Kids Mugs (2) Girl Crying &Kids W/Shovel

Description

From Wikipedia:
The Katzenjammer Kids
was inspired by
Max and Moritz
, a children's story of the 1860s by German author
Wilhelm Busch
.
[3]
Katzenjammer
translates literally as
the wailing of cats
- i.e. "caterwaul". However, it is also used to mean
contrition after a failed endeavor
or
hangover
in German (and, in the latter sense, in English too). Whereas Max & Moritz were grotesquely but comically put to death after seven destructive pranks, the Katzenjammer Kids and the other characters still thrive.
Dirks and Knerr
The Katzenjammer Kids
was inspired by
Max and Moritz
, a children's story of the 1860s by German author
Wilhelm Busch
.
[3]
Katzenjammer
translates literally as
the wailing of cats
- i.e. "caterwaul". However, it is also used to mean
contrition after a failed endeavor
or
hangover
in German (and, in the latter sense, in English too). Whereas Max & Moritz were grotesquely but comically put to death after seven destructive pranks, the Katzenjammer Kids and the other characters still thrive.
The Katzenjammer Kids
was so popular that it became two competing comic strips and the subject of a lawsuit. This happened because Dirks, in 1912, wanted to take a break after drawing the strip for 15 years, but the Hearst newspaper syndicate would not allow it. Dirks left anyway, and the strip was taken over by Harold Knerr. Dirks' last strip appeared March 16, 1913.
[4]
Various
ghost artists
then apparently did the strip for a few months. Dirks sued, and after a long legal battle, the Hearst papers were allowed to continue
The Katzenjammer Kids
, with Knerr as writer and artist. He took over permanently in the summer of 1914, but Dirks was allowed to create an almost identical strip of his own for the rival
Pulitzer
newspapers,
[1]
although he had to use a different name for the strip.
Mugs have dark green ground with cartoon-like picture in vivid colors. Measures 3 1/2" high and 2 5/8" diameter.
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