Mutt and Jeff was arguably the world’s first daily comic strip, starting in 1907 and continuing until 1982. Created by Bud Fisher but as with most strips later ghosted by others, the most prolific being Al Smith. Once comic books got started in the late twenties/early thirties Mutt and Jeff were reprinted in those as well: the page above comes from National Comics/DC’s long running series of reprints, Mutt & Jeff #18. Cicero’s Cat was a substrip of Mutt and Jeff, a socalled “topper” that ran above the main strip. I though I’d show it because I liked the dynamism of it.
Now we’re living in a golden age of comic strip reprints, so why hasn’t Mutt and Jeff not had a high profile Drawn & Quarterly or Fantagraphics reprint series yet?
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