Cocoliche in Tit-Bits Magazine

This cover announces a new serialization of *Cocoliche*, the Argentine adaptation of Frederick Burr Opper's *Happy Hooligan*. The character—a working-class immigrant rendered with period ethnic caricature—became a fixture in Argentine newspapers, embodying vernacular humor through exaggerated speech and costume. By 1913, *Tit-Bits* had established itself as Argentina's pioneering comic periodical, trafficking in the visual vocabulary then standardized across Atlantic newspapers: speech balloons, sequential panels, and recurring protagonists. The magazine's circulation of reprinted and adapted American strips demonstrates how early comic narratives crossed borders rapidly, taking on local dialect and social reference while maintaining the visual grammar Opper and his peers had codified.