Feininger, Lyonel [The Kin-der-Kids Newspaper Sunday Sheets] *

The American-born Lyonel Feininger created two newspaper Sunday strip series, both of which were short-lived. The more prominent title, The Kin-der-Kids, was syndicated by the Chicago Tribune Syndicate and ran from April 29 through November 18, 1906. Feininger abandoned the strip abruptly, and the storyline simply stopped without any conclusion. To my knowledge no final original has survived for Feininger's comic strip masterpiece, although there is a preliminary version for one entry of his other series, Wee Willie Winkie's World (which was even more surreal than was The Kin-der-Kids). I bought a group of newspaper pages with The Kin-der-Kids at auction in the 1980s. Although I haven't generally collected printed examples of comic strips, I had no choice but to settle for the following pages if I wanted any representation of pioneering strip from 1906. Since there is no option on CAF that actually fits non-original printed newspaper strips, I went with the category for photographs in posting these pieces. I am aware that they aren't photographs in the conventional sense, but they were printed through a process related to photography.