" I heard that Bud Fisher ( creator of Mutt and Jeff ) got $ 3, 000 a week and was constantly marrying French countesses ," Capp said.

However, throughout history there have been exceptions, with Mutt and Jeff being an early ( if not the earliest ) case in which the creator owned his works.

By March 1947, the NCS had 112 members, including Bud Fisher ( Mutt and Jeff ), Don Flowers ( Glamor Girls ), Bob Kane ( Batman ), Fred Lasswell ( Barney Google and Snuffy Smith ), George Lichty ( Grin and Bear It ), Zack Mosley ( The Adventures of Smilin ' Jack ), Alex Raymond ( Rip Kirby ), Cliff Sterrett ( Polly and Her Pals ) and Chic Young ( Blondie ), plus editorial cartoonists Reg Manning and Fred O. Seibel and sports cartoonist Willard Mullin.

He appeared in the Mutt and Jeff and The Lizard and the Coon acts, and in a blackface act titled The Wheel of Mirth alongside comedian Charles Murray.

* Helge Moe and Tor Glad – Mutt and Jeff

* Mutt and Jeff ( spies ), codename of Allied double agent Helge Moe during World War II

* Mutt, a character in the Mutt and Jeff comic

False information about the arrival of troops in the area were reported by double agents " Mutt " and " Jeff ", who had surrendered following their 1941 landing in the Moray Firth, whilst the British media cooperated by broadcasting fake information, such as football scores or wedding announcements, to nonexistent troops .. Fortitude was so successful that by late spring 1944, Hitler had thirteen army divisions in Norway.

* Cicero, son of Mutt in the comic strip Mutt and Jeff

Segar ( Popeye ) and Bud Fisher ( Mutt and Jeff ).

Mutt and Jeff were two Norwegian spies who worked for the United Kingdom and MI5 and were members of the Double Cross System.

In April 1941 two Norwegians, John " Helge " Moe ( Mutt ) and Tor Glad ( Jeff ) fetched up on a remote Aberdeenshire beach, having travelled by seaplane and rubber dinghy.

MI5 soon ' turned ' them, assigning them their codenames, which were the names of a pair of cartoon strip characters ( see Mutt and Jeff ).

' Mutt and Jeff ' is also rhyming slang for ' mute and deaf '.

To ensure the German handlers did not suspect Mutt and Jeff of having sold out, MI5 arranged for fake sabotage operations-supposedly the work of the pair-to take place, in one case going so far as to set off a controlled explosion at a power plant which was widely reported in the local media as a genuine attack.

In 1910, at Horsley's Centaur Film Company, Christie began turning out one single reel of a Mutt and Jeff comedy picture every week.

Mutt and Jeff was a long-popular American newspaper comic strip created by cartoonist Bud Fisher in 1907 about " two mismatched tinhorns.

The concept of a newspaper strip featuring recurring characters in multiple panels on a six-day-a-week schedule had previously been pioneered through the short-lived A. Piker Clerk by Clare Briggs, but it was Mutt and Jeff as the first successful daily comic strip that staked out the direction of the future trend.

In 1918, Mutt and Jeff added a Sunday strip, and as success continued, Fisher became increasingly dependent on assistants to produce the work.

Smith continued to draw Mutt and Jeff until 1980, two years before it ceased publication.

In the introduction to Forever Nuts: The Early Years of Mutt & Jeff, Allan Holtz gave the following reason for the strip's longevity and demise:

Currently, Andrews McMeel Universal continues to syndicate Mutt and Jeff under the imprint Classic Mutt and Jeff ( in both English and Spanish language versions ) under the signature of Pierre S. de Beaumont ( 1915-2010 ), founder of the Brookstone catalog and retail chain.

The animated series lasted 11 years and more than 300 animated Mutt and Jeff shorts were released, making it the longest continuing theatrical animated movie serial and second longest to Krazy Kat.

Fountain was a urinal signed with the pseudonym R. Mutt, the exhibition of which shocked the art world in 1917.

In 1999, the Come on Over album was remixed for the European market as a pop album with less country instrumentation and actually gave her the big breakthrough in Europe she and her producer husband ( Robert John " Mutt " Lange ) were looking for.

Twain married music producer Robert John " Mutt " Lange on December 28, 1993, and they have a son, Eja ( pronounced " Asia ") D ' Angelo, who was born on August 12, 2001.

The Wild Cat was used in the shorts Don't Give Up the Sheep and A Mutt in a Rut, while the bees were used in the short Zoom and Bored.

Mickey Mantle was born in Spavinaw, Oklahoma, the son of Elvin Charles Mantle, a lead miner known as " Mutt ," and Lovell ( née Richardson ) Mantle.

* Mutt Carey-Jazz trumpeter whose family moved to New Orleans when he was a child.

Mutt and Jeff's mission was supposed to be one of sabotage, as well as having a secondary intelligence role, reporting ( via wireless ) military locations, deployments and civilian morale.

MI5 used Mutt and Jeff's radio sets to relay false information, leading the Germans to believe that the United Kingdom intended to invade Norway ( this activity was a component of Operation Fortitude ).

Thomas " Papa Mutt " Carey ( 1886 – 1948 ) was a New Orleans jazz trumpeter.

His older brother Jack Carey was a trombone player and bandleader ; Mutt was playing cornet in his brother's band by about 1912.

Their 1981 album High ' n ' Dry was produced by Robert John " Mutt " Lange, who helped them begin to define their style, and the album's stand out track " Bringin ' On the Heartbreak " became one of the first metal videos played on MTV in 1982.

The most famous of Duchamp's readymades was Fountain ( 1917 ), a standard urinal basin signed by the artist with the pseudonym " R. Mutt ", and submitted for inclusion in the annual, un-juried exhibition of the Society of Independent Artists in New York ( it was rejected ).

The Fountain, was a urinal signed with the pseudonym R. Mutt, that shocked the art world in 1917.

Kramer was fired before a single track had been completed, and Robert John " Mutt " Lange was brought in to replace him.

Zomba, Jive's parent company, was formed in the mid seventies as a publishing and management company in Willesden North West London, their first client was a young Mutt Lange.

" Where Did Your Plans Go " was released April 18, 1994, with " Bully Lover " and " Mutt Stamina ".

Al Christie moved permanently from the East, where he had been working with the Horsleys creating the extremely popular silent era Mutt and Jeff comedy shorts, to Southern California.

Other popular email readers which followed elm and took it as an inspiration include the Mutt and Pine programs.

Most Tijuana bibles were obscene parodies of popular newspaper comic strips of the day, like " Blondie ", " Barney Google ", " Moon Mullins ", " Popeye ", " Tillie the Toiler ", " Dick Tracy ", " Little Orphan Annie ", " Bringing Up Father ", " Dixie Dugan ", and " Mutt and Jeff ".

Harvey also licensed popular characters from newspaper comic strips, such as Mutt and Jeff and Sad Sack.