• 1865

• Wilhelm Busch's "Max und Moritz" introduced in German papers. This strip had a direct influence on Rudolph Dirks who would plagiarize the strip for the Katzenjammer Kids.
• A.N. Kellogg News Company established. First newspaper syndicate in the U.S. consolidated during the final days of the Civil War for faster news reporting.

  1877

• Puck magazine begins publication in America.

  1881

• Judge magazine begins publication.

  1883

• Life magazine begins publication

  1894

• The first color newspaper page is published in the New York Recorder.
• One week later, the New York World under Joseph Pulitzer publishes it's first color page.
• "The Little Bears" by James Swinnerton begins in the San Francisco Examiner under William Randolph Hearst.

  1895

• Richard Felton Outcault's "Yellow Kid" makes his first appearance in Pulitzer's the World.
• the Yellow Kid in his first appearance. 10k Gif.
• the Yellow kid in 1896. 52k Gif

1896

• The Yellow Kid begins publication as a weekly feature.

  1897

• R.F.Outcault moves from Pulitzer's "The World" to Hearst's "Examiner".
• Hearst's "Journal American" establishes it's Sunday comic supplement, called the American Humorist it features Outcault's "Yellow Kid" and
• Dirk's "Katzenjammer Kids" make their first appearance.

  1900

• "Foxy Grandpa" by Carl Schultze makes first appearance in the New York Herald.
• Frederic Burr Opper's "Happy Hooligan" first appearance.
  1902
• R.F.Outcault's "Buster Brown" makes first appearance in the New York Herald.

  1903

• Gustave Verbeck's "The Upside Downs" begins in the New York Herald.
• Clare Briggs's "A.Piker Clerk" makes first appearance the Chicago American.

  1904

• First appearance of "The Newlyweds" by George McManus.
• Winsor McCay's "Dream of the Rarebit Fiend" makes first appearance in the Evening Telegram.
• James Swinnerton's "Little Jimmy" makes his first appearance.

  1905

• Winsor McCay's epic "Little Nemo in Slumberland" makes first appearance in the New York Herald.
• Gustave Verbeck's "The Terrors of the Tiny Tads" makes first appearance.

  1906

• C.W.Kahles "Hairbreadth Harry" makes first appearance.
• Lyonel Feininger's "The Kin-der-Kids" & "Wee Willie Winkie's World" begin in the Chicago Tribune

  1907

• Bud Fisher's "Mutt & Jeff" makes it's first appearance as "Mr. A.Mutt" in the San Francisco Chronicle. Accredited as the first successful daily comic strip.

  1910

• Harry Hershfield's "Desperate Desmond" first appearance.
• George Herriman's "Dingbat Family" makes it's first appearance. On July 26 Krazy Kat makes first transformed appearance 1911
• Sidney Smith's "Old Doc Yak" makes first appearance.

  1912

• William Randolph Hearst creates "International Feature Service", later renamed King Features.
• Rudolph Dirks quits Hearst's Journal American and goes to Pulitzer's the World. Move results in lawsuit against Dirks that he may not take the Katzenjammer Kids with him. A landmark decision handed down in 1914
• Cliff Sterrett's "Positive Polly" makes first appearance. Later renamed Polly & Her Pals.
• Edgar Rice Burrough's "Under the Moons of Mars" published in All Story.
• Edgar Rice Burrough's "Tarzan of the Apes" published in All Story Magazine

  1913

• George McManus' "Bringing Up Father" makes first appearance in the Journal American
• George Herriman's Krazy Kat appears as it's own strip with title on October 28

• George McManus "Bringing Up Father", top half of a Sunday page from 1935. 207k Jpeg.
• George McManus "Bringing Up Father", bottom half of a Sunday page from 1935. 207k Jpeg.
• George McManus "Bringing Up Father", a panel from 1935. 35 k Jpeg.
• George Herriman self portrait. 13k Gif.
• George Herriman's "Krazy Kat". 2.5k Gif.