FW: katzenjammer: M-W's Word of the Day

[sagehen]

>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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It may well have been.  Those names came to mind, but I wasn't sure whether
they came from the book alluded to above or a strip that I've heard Martin
mention that appeared in the weekly Fargo (ND) newspaper that came to his
childhood house.
AM

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