1900s in comics

This is a timeline of significant events in comics in the 1900s.

1900

U.S. publications

• March 11: first publication of Happy Hooligan by Frederick Burr Opper in the Hearst newspaper Sunday pages.

1904

U.S. publications

• January 2: first appearance of Major Ozone's Fresh Air Crusade by George Herriman, syndicated by World Color Printing Co.
• February 14: first appearance of Little Jimmy by Jimmy Swinnerton in the New York Journal.
• July 24: first appearance of Little Sammy Sneeze by Winsor McCay in New York Herald.
• September 10: first appearance of Dreams of the Rarebit Fiend by McCay under the pseudonym Silas, in Evening Telegram.

1905

Chinese publications

• Unknown date: Journal of Current Pictorial

European publications

• February 2: first appearance of Bécassine drawn by Joseph Pinchon, in La Semaine de Suzette.

U.S. publications

• January 8: first appearance of The Story of Hungry Henrietta by Winsor McCay.
• June 26: first appearance of A Pilgrim’s Progress by McCay.
• October 15: first publication of Little Nemo in Slumberland by McCay in New York Herald.
• Unknown date: a collection of McCay's Dreams of the Rarebit Fiend strips is published by the Frederick A. Stokes Company of New York.

1908

• Harold R. Heaton joins the Inter-Ocean newspaper as an editorial cartoonist.

1909

U.S. publications

• November 1: first appearance of The Umbrella Man by John Hager for the Seattle Daily Times, appearing on the front page as a supplement for the weather. Not titled as the Umbrella Man, but called that May 3, 1913 under a section called "Features of Today's Paper".

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