Happy Hooligan is an American comic strip, the first major strip by the already celebrated cartoonist Frederick Burr Opper. It debuted with a Sunday strip on March 11, 1900 in the William Randolph Hearst newspapers, and was one of the first …

Happy Hooligan was one of the most successful comic strips of the first decades of the twentieth century. Created in 1900, it featured the adventures of a good natured hobo named Happy Hooligan, who was anything but a hooligan.

In Happy Hooligan, our titular character is a well-meaning buffoon whose attempts to help children and the elderly always result in massive carnage, leading inevitably to Happy's arrest - while his brother Gloomy Gus stands in the background prognosticating something bad about to happen.

Happy Hooligan is a good-hearted, yet hapless, tramp with a distinctive appearance characterized by the red tin can he wears as a hat, scruffy five o’ clock shadow (a short beard in earlier strips), and tattered clothes. Despite his name and perpetually optimistic attitude, Happy often finds...

This vintage comic book from 1932 features the adventures of Happy Hooligan, illustrated by Frederick Burr Opper. Written by Marion Kinnaird, this softcover book is a great addition to any collection ...from

While a step down from (relatively) high to low brow, Opper jumped at the chance and created “ Happy Hooligan, ” an un-heroized vagrant who ends up very badly at the end of each strip no matter how much good he might mean.

Happy Hooligan was a popular and influential early American comic strip, the first major strip by Frederick Burr Opper. It debuted with a Sunday strip on March 11, 1900 in the William Randolph Hearst newspapers, and was one of the first popular comics with King Features Syndicate.

2006年11月6日 · Among his published works are: Happy Hooligan: a complete compilation, 1904-1905 (Hyperion Press, 1977); Happy Hooligan (pgs. 49 & 62 in The Comic Strip Century, Kitchen Sink Press, 1995, several weekly episodes); "Happy Hooligan's Honey-moon" (copyright 1917 and reproduced on p. 33 of Golf in the Comic Strips, General Publishing Group, 1997 ...