Frederick Burr Opper

Frederick Burr Opper (b. January 2, 1857, Madison, Ohio-d. August 28, 1937, New Rochelle, New York), cartoonist. Opper’s first cartoon was published in 1876 in Wild Oats, and he worked as an illustrator at Frank Leslie’s Weekly from 1877 to 1880. He was hired to draw for the humor magazine Puck in 1880 and continued there for 18 years. Opper accepted a position with the New York Journal in 1899, where his comic strip Happy Hooligan first appeared in 1900 and ran until 1932. He was also the author of the Alphonse and Gaston cartoon.