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The Katzenjammers Find Uncle Heinie!

· January 19, 1913

The Katzenjammers Find Uncle Heinie!
This Sunday strip from the *Omaha Daily Bee* continues the misadventures of the Katzenjammer Kids, whose anarchic humor dominated American newspapers in the early 1900s. The narrative follows the family's search for Uncle Heinie across multiple panels and locations—boats, crowded interiors, and dockside scenes—employing the visual language that defined modern comics: sequential panel layouts, speech balloons, and exaggerated expressions. The *Katzenjammers*, debuting in 1897, helped establish the Sunday funnies as a newspaper institution and influenced how artists would structure visual storytelling for decades.

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