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

[Wilson Gray]

Hans und Fritz.

-Wilson

On 1/31/07, sagehen <sagehen at westelcom.com> wrote:
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> >On Wed 01/31/07 at that inevitble hour of 12:06 AM sagehen
> ><sagehen at WESTELCOM.COM>
> >wrote:
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> >"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
> >
>  ~~~~~~~~~~~
> 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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