Happy Hooligan — Omaha Daily Bee, April 26, 1914

Twelve numbered panels trace Happy Hooligan's latest misadventure: dispatched to deliver a birthday gift trunk to a suffragette leader, the tin-can-hatted tramp triggers a brawl, a staircase pile-up of toppling policemen, and a final appearance in a London police van before a bewigged magistrate. Frederick Burr Opper launched *Happy Hooligan* in 1900 for William Randolph Hearst's syndicate, making the hapless, good-natured vagrant one of America's first recurring comic-strip stars. Opper's clean brushwork, confident crowd staging, and fluid panel-to-panel momentum helped codify the visual grammar—sequential panels, speech balloons, slapstick cause-and-effect—that Sunday newspaper color supplements were perfecting at the very moment future comic books were taking notes.