Happy Hooligan — St. Louis Republic, January 24, 1904

Two full Sunday strips fill this page. The top strip, *Happy Hooligan at Work Again*, follows Frederick Burr Opper's signature tramp — tin-can hat, oversized shoes — as he blunders through a stage career: receiving a letter, attempting a theatrical debut, getting pelted by an audience, and finally ejected at the stage door. Below it, *How Little Benjamin Subdued the Strange Dog* runs six panels of slapstick boy-versus-dog mayhem. Opper's draftsmanship is brisk and economical, with speech balloons and sequential panel gutters already fluent — the visual grammar that Sunday newspaper pages, from Outcault's *Yellow Kid* (1895) onward, assembled into what would become the comic book format. *Happy Hooligan* ran 1900–1932, making it one of the longest-lived strips of the form's founding generation.