The Cricket, Two Cents, Saturday and Sunday
Date1895
Artist
Rudolph Dirks
(American cartoonist, 1877–1968)
Illustration CitationAdvertising poster for The Cricket, December 1895
MediumTwo-color commercial lithograph
Dimensionssheet: 13 3/4 × 10 1/4 in. (34.9 × 26 cm)
Credit LineGift of Helen Farr Sloan, 1977
Object number1977-102
On View
Not on viewClassificationsPRINT
Label TextRudolph Dirks was one of the major figures in the development of newspaper comics. He invented the Katzenjammer Kids in 1897, and drew them for roughly the next half century.The Arena was a literary and political magazine founded by Benjamin Orange Flower in 1889 and published by Arena Publishing Co. in Boston from then until 1909.
The magazine advocated social reform, publishing writers such as Upton Sinclair, Stephen Crane, and Hamlin Garland.
George Frederick Scotson-Clark
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William McGregor Paxton
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