Max and Moritz provided an inspiration for German immigrant Rudolph Dirks, who created the Katzenjammer Kids in 1897.

Hugely popular, Katzenjammer Kids occasioned one of the first comic-strip copyright ownership suits in the history of the medium.

In a highly unusual court decision, Hearst retained the rights to the name " Katzenjammer Kids ", while creator Dirks retained the rights to the characters.

Katzenjammer Kids ( 1897-present )

The Blockheads were inspired by the Katzenjammer Kids, who were always getting into scrapes and causing discomfort to others.

Rudolph Dirks ' The Katzenjammer Kids ( 1901 )

The Katzenjammer Kids is an American comic strip created by the German immigrant Rudolph Dirks and drawn by Harold H. Knerr for 37 years ( 1912 to 1949 ).

It featured the same characters seen in The Katzenjammer Kids, which was continued by Knerr.

The Katzenjammer Kids was inspired by Max and Moritz, a children's story of the 1860s by German author Wilhelm Busch.

The Katzenjammer Kids ( three brothers in the first strip but soon reduced to two ) featured Hans and Fritz, twins who rebelled against authority, particularly in the form of their mother, Mama ; der Captain, a shipwrecked sailor who acted as a surrogate father ; and der Inspector, an official from the school system.

The Katzenjammer Kids was so popular that it became two competing comic strips and the subject of a lawsuit.

Dirks sued, and after a long legal battle, the Hearst papers were allowed to continue The Katzenjammer Kids, while Dirks was allowed to syndicate an almost identical strip of his own for the rival Pulitzer newspapers.

The Captain and the Kids was very similar to The Katzenjammer Kids in terms of content and characters, but Dirks had a looser and more verbal style than Knerr, who on the other hand often produced stronger, more direct gags and drawings.

The Captain and the Kids soon proved to equal the popularity of The Katzenjammer Kids.

It was later distributed by the United Feature Syndicate ( while Hearst's King Features distributed The Katzenjammer Kids ).

Knerr continued drawing The Katzenjammer Kids until his death in 1949 ; the strip was then written and drawn by Charles H. Winner ( 1949 – 56 ), with Joe Musial taking over in 1956.

Musial was replaced on The Katzenjammer Kids by Mike Senisch ( 1976 – 81 ) and Angelo DeCesare ( 1981 – 86 ).

The Katzenjammer Kids characters initially appeared outside of comics in a handful of live-action silent films, the first released in 1898.

Between December 1916 and August 1918, a total of 37 Katzenjammer Kids silent cartoon shorts were produced by William Randolph Hearst's own cartoon studio International Film Service, which adapted well-known comic strips owned by Hearst for animation.

All Katzenjammer Kids / Shenanigan Kids cartoons from International Film Services were directed ( and most likely also animated ) by Gregory La Cava.

In addition, the Katzenjammer Kids had cameo roles ( along with a lot of other King Features comic strip stars ) in Filmation's TV special Popeye Meets the Man Who Hated Laughter ( 1972 ).

Katzenjammer translates literally as the wailing of cats but is used to mean contrition after a failed endeavor or hangover in German ( and, in the latter sense, in English too ).

* The Katzenjammer Kids is also published as an annual comic book in Norway, Sweden, and Denmark.

Starring Moran, Bill Bailey and Tamsin Greig, the series is set in the eponymous London bookshop Black Books and follows the lives of its owner Bernard Black, his assistant Manny Bianco ( Bailey ) and their friend Fran Katzenjammer ( Greig ).

Halo Star is the bands ' first journey into a dark cabaret musical style, very similar to The Dresden Dolls and Katzenjammer Kabarett.

Tamsin Margaret M. Greig (; born 12 July 1966 ) is an English actress principally known for her roles in two Channel 4 television comedies: Fran Katzenjammer in Black Books and Dr. Caroline Todd in Green Wing.

Hy Eisman ( b. March 27, 1927 ) is an American cartoonist who wrote and drew the Sunday strips The Katzenjammer Kids and Popeye.

While still in high school in the late 1980s, Bjork got together with friends Josh Homme and John Garcia to form a band called Katzenjammer.

The Captain and the Kids was distributed by United Feature Syndicate while King Features Syndicate handled The Katzenjammer Kids.

* Rollo Rhubarb, the teacher's pet and foil to Hans and Fritz in The Katzenjammer Kids comic strip by Harold Knerr

* The Katzenjammer Kids ( 1916-1918 ): directed by Gregory La Cava ; animated by Gregory La Cava, John Foster, George ( Vernon ) Stallings, Isadore Klein ; screenwritten by H. E.

With 11, 000 subscribers by June 2010, more vintage strips were added to DailyINK, including Barney Google, Beetle Bailey, Big Ben Bolt, Brick Bradford, The Heart of Juliet Jones, Jackys Diary, The Katzenjammer Kids, Little Iodine, Mandrake the Magician, Office Hours, Quincy and Radio Patrol.

Taught by Hy Eisman ( Popeye, The Katzenjammer Kids ), Michael Kraiger (" Scooby-Doo ", former Marvel Comics editor ), and Mike Chen ( school administrator ).

He was influenced by Otto Messmer's Felix the Cat, Winsor McCay's Little Nemo in Slumberland, Frederick Burr Opper's Happy Hooligan, Rudolph Dirks's the Katzenjammer Kids, and Barks and Gottfredson's Disney adaptations.

In the 1950s and early 1960s, King Features Syndicate marketed a set of decalcomanias bearing full-color pictures of characters from King Features comic strips, including Flash Gordon, the Katzenjammer Kids and Dagwood Bumstead.

By the mid-1940s, the newspaper's Sunday comics included Bringing Up Father, Blondie, a full-page Prince Valiant, Flash Gordon, The Little King, Buz Sawyer, Feg Murray's Seein ' Stars, Tim Tyler's Luck, Gene Ahern's Room and Board and The Squirrel Cage, The Phantom, Jungle Jim, Tillie the Toiler, Little Annie Rooney, Little Iodine, Bob Green's The Lone Ranger, Believe It or Not !, Uncle Remus, Dinglehoofer and His Dog, Donald Duck, Tippie, Right Around Home, Barney Google and Snuffy Smith and The Katzenjammer Kids.

Most readers preferred the slapstick antics of such strips as Katzenjammer Kids, Happy Hooligan, and Buster Brown to the surreal fantasy of Nemo, and other comic strips like Krazy Kat.

Many familiar with comic strip history consider it to have been the direct inspiration for the Katzenjammer Kids and Quick & Flupke.

He created an animated adaptation of the comic book series The Katzenjammer Kids which he re-titled The Captain & The Kids.

Unlike most comic strip children ( like the Katzenjammer Kids or Little Orphan Annie ) he did not remain a baby or even a little boy for long.

To Freleng's chagrin, he found he would be working on The Captain and the Kids, adapted from the popular comic strip The Katzenjammer Kids.

During 1938 – 39, he served as a senior director on MGM's Captain and the Kids series, based upon the comic strip of the same name ( an alternate version of the Katzenjammer Kids that had resulted from a 1914 lawsuit ).