FW: katzenjammer: M-W's Word of the Day
James A. Landau
JJJRLandau at NETSCAPE.COM
Thu Feb 1 00:49:31 UTC 2007
On Wed 01/31/07 at that inevitble hour of 12:06 AM sagehen <sagehen at WESTELCOM.COM>
wrote:
"It may have been something like this that my father told my brother & me
when we were Katzenjammer Kids readers back in the 30s. He had been
in Germany just before WWI (& nearly caught there by the outbreak of the
war) & brought back some examples of German comics, hardbound, one of which
was clearly an influence on KK."
Was it "Max and Moritz" by any chance?
- Jim Landau
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