1914

• On appeal, Hearst v. Dirks suit settled. Landmark decision retains the rights of Hearst's Journal American to publish the Katzenjammer Kids without Dirks, while Dirks retains the right to draw his characters under a different title for the rival New York World.
• Harold H.Knerr's first Katzenjammer Kids appears.
• Dirk's "Hans and Fritz" makes first appearance. Later renamed "the Captain and the Kids" after America enters World War I.
• Harry Hershfield's "Abie the Agent" makes first appearance.

  1915

• Fontaine Fox's "Toonerville Folks" makes first appearance as a regular feature.
• Rube Goldberg's "Boob McNutt" makes first appearance.
• Merrill Blosser's "Freckles and His Friends" makes first appearance.
• Moses Koenigsberg consolidates all of Hearst's syndication companies under one banner and calls it King Features Syndicate.

  1917

• Sidney Smith's "the Gumps" makes first appearance in the Chicago Tribune.
• Felix the Cat appears in animated cartoons.

  1918

• Frank King's "Gasoline Alley" makes first appearance in the Chicago Tribune

  1919

• Billy DeBeck's "Barney Google" makes first appearance in the Journal American.
• Elzie Crisler Segar creates "Thimble Theater" in the Journal American.
• Carl Ed's "Harold Teen" makes first appearance in the Chicago Tribune.

  1920

• Martin Branners "Winnie Winkle" makes first appearance.

  1921

• Ed Wheelan's. "Minute Movies" first appearance.
• Russ Westover's "Tillie the Toiler" first appearance.
• J.R.Williams' "Out Our Way" first appearance.

  1922

• Walter Berndt's "Smitty" makes first appearance.
  1923
• Pat Sullivan's "Felix the Cat" first appearance as a newspaper strip in the Journal American.
• Sol Hess' "The Nebbs" makes first appearance, illustrated by W.A.Garrison.
• Frank Willard's " Moon Mullins" makes first appearance in the Chicago Tribune
• Ad Carter's "Just Kids" makes first appearance.

  1924

• Harold Gray's "Little Orphan Annie" makes first appearance in the New York News
• Roy Crane's "Wash Tubbs" first appearance in the Chicago Tribune.
• Edgar Martin's "Boots and Her Buddies" makes first appearance.

  1925

• Charles Plumb and Bill Conselman's "Ella Cinders" first appearance.

  1926

• "Amazing Stories" begins publication.

  1927

• Frank Godwin's marvelous adventure (later sci-fi) comic strip "Connie" makes first appearance.

  1928

• Buck Rogers Makes first appearance in Amazing Stories, August 1928.
• Lyman Young's "Tim Tyler's Luck" first appearance.
• Hal Forrest creates "Tailspin Tommy" with Glenn Chaffin.
• Ham Fisher's "Joe Palooka" makes first appearance.
• Percy Crosby's "Skippy" makes first appearance in the Journal American.

  1929

• Dick Calkin's "Buck Rogers" first appearance, January 7.
• Tarzan introduced as a comic strip illustrated by Harold R. Foster, January 7.
• Popeye makes his first appearance in Segar's "Thimble Theatre".
• Clifford McBride's "Napoleon" first appearance.
• Internationaly famous strip "Tintin" appears in Belgium created by Herge (Georges Remi).< 1930
• Walt Disney's "Mickey Mouse" introduced as a comic strip drawn by animator Ub Iwerks.
• Chic Young's "Blondie" makes her first appearance. Becomes the quintessential family strip a la "All in the Family".
• John Terry's "Scorchy Smith" makes first appearance.

  1931

• Chester Gould's immortal "Dick Tracy" makes his first appearance in the Detroit Free Press on October 4.
  1932
• Martha Orr's "Apple Mary" makes first appearance, becomes "Mary Worth" in 1940 by Dale Allen (Allen Saunders & Dale Conners).
• C.D. Russell's "Pete the Tramp" first appearance nationally.

  1933

• Eastern Publishing prints "Funnies on Parade" the first comic book for Procter & Gamble as a promotional item. The contents of the book were entirely comic strip reprints.
• Zack Mosley's "On the Wing" makes first appearance on October 1, becomes "Smilin' Jack" in December.
• Brick Bradford by William Ritt & Clarence Gray makes first appearance.
• Milton Caniff's "Dickie Dare" makes first appearance.
• Vincent T. Hamlin's "Alley Oop" makes first appearance.