335. Hand-Drawn Cartoon Strip of “Katzenjammer Kids” with Autograph to Shirley Temple
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In her 1988 autobiography, Child Star, Shirley Temple relates a story about a reporter inquiring of her favorite comic strip. To the reporter’s
20” (51 cm.) x 18”. A nine-panel hand-drawn and hand-tinted cartoon
astonishment, the child star replied “Katzenjammer Kids” although she
strip features the antics of the Katzenjammer Kids, Hans and Fritz, and
admitted in her book that her real preference had been Flash Gordon
the Captain and Miss Twiddle. The strip was drawn by Harold H. Knerr
and Tarzan, and it was her father who “relished that [Katzenjammer]
for 37 years from 1912-1949. This framed artwork is autographed at
strip, an unintelligible mix of puns and fractured German”. It may have
the bottom edge, “To Shirley Temple with ‘very extra best’ wishes by
been this impromptu accolade that earned Shirley this inscribed and
Harold H. Knerr”. Circa 1935.
autographed comic strip by Knerr. $1000+