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Frederick Burr Opper - The industrial ‘cold snap’ is over
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Frederick Burr Opper

Frederick Burr Opper is regarded as one of the pioneers of American newspaper comic strips, best known for his comic strip Happy Hooligan. His comic characters were featured in magazine gag cartoons, covers, political cartoons and comic strips for six decades.

Born to Austrian-American immigrants Lewis and Aurelia Burr Oppers in Madison, Ohio, Frederick was the eldest of three children. At the age of 14, he dropped out of school to work as a printer's apprentice at the local Madison Gazette, and at 16, he moved to New York City where he worked in a store and continued to draw. He studied briefly at Cooper Union, followed by a short stint as pupil and assistant to illustrator Frank Beard.

Opper's first cartoon was published in Wild Oats in 1876, followed by cartoons and illustrations in Scribner’s Monthly and St. Nicholas Magazine. He worked as illustrator at Frank Leslie's Weekly from 1877 to 1880. Opper was then hired to draw for Puck by publishers Joseph Keppler and Adolph Schwarzmann. He stayed with Puck for 18 years, drawing everything from spot illustrations to chromolithograph covers.

Opper married Nellie Barnett on May 18, 1881. They had three children, Lawrence, Anna and Sophia.

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Columbia’s Easter bonnet

Columbia’s Easter bonnet (1901)

Samuel Ehrhart (American, 1862-1937)
The latest version

The latest version (1894)

Frederick Burr Opper (American, 1857-1937)
Did they think it was a dirigible

Did they think it was a dirigible (1908)

Udo Keppler (American, 1872 – 1956)
Boiling over

Boiling over (1914)

Walter Dean Goldbeck (American, 1882 - 1925)
A question of courage

A question of courage (1908)

Art Young (American, 1866 – 1943)
The one man power in our jury system

The one man power in our jury system (1886)

Joseph Ferdinand Keppler (American, 1838 – 1894)
An unforeseen emergency

An unforeseen emergency (1898)

Udo Keppler (American, 1872 – 1956)
You dirty boy!

You dirty boy! (1907)

Udo Keppler (American, 1872 – 1956)
He won’t be happy till he gets it (with profuse apologies to the Pears’ Soap Baby)

He won’t be happy till he gets it (with profuse apologies to the Pears’ Soap Baby) (1907)

Louis Glackens (American, 1866-1933)
The headsman

The headsman (1906)

John Samuel Pughe (American, 1870-1909)
Social hypocrisies, and the painful scenes they save us from

Social hypocrisies, and the painful scenes they save us from (1898)

Frederick Burr Opper (American, 1857-1937)
The latest suitor

The latest suitor (1894)

Louis Dalrymple (American, 1866 – 1905)
He laughs best who laughs last

He laughs best who laughs last (1895)

Frank Marion Hutchins (American, ca. 1867-1896)
They are away off the track

They are away off the track (1896)

Louis Dalrymple (American, 1866 – 1905)
Helping the rascals in – a burglarious scheme that may be suddenly spoiled

Helping the rascals in – a burglarious scheme that may be suddenly spoiled (1884)

Joseph Ferdinand Keppler (American, 1838 – 1894)
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