Felix the Cat is a comic strip ran from August 1923 to January 1967.
The Felix Sunday newspaper comic strip debuted in England's Daily Sketch on August 1, 1923. The series ran weekly for twelve episodes, all of them pencilled and inked by Otto Messmer.
Starting Sunday, August 19, 1923, King Features syndicated the twelve Sketch strips in the United States—reinked, for whatever reason, by studio boss Pat Sullivan. They were also published in a different order: the first strip syndicated in the USA had been the third strip in the UK series.
The saga doesn't stop there. The only Stateside paper to run Felix from the start was the Boston American, which published Sunday strips five days late. So while King syndicated Felix's debut on August 19, Felix didn't actually appear in an American newspaper until Friday, August 24.
By the end of the year things had calmed down. Sullivan's involvement was over; King followed up on the twelve Sketch strips with Sundays both penciled and inked by Messmer. And multiple papers were printing the Sunday strip properly by now—that is to say, on Sunday.
The Felix daily strip is begun in May 1927, though the exact start date has not been securely pinned down. Until mid-1931 the "artist" was Jack Bogle—actually reinking Felix animation drawings to create comics panels and stories. In 1931 Messmer took the daily over from Bogle, at which time its art became all-original to the strip.
Strips[]
1920s[]
- August 1923 comic strips
- September 1923 comic strips
- November 1923 comic strips
- February 1924 comic strips
- August 1924 comic strips
- December 1925 comic strips
- September 1926 comic strips
- January 1927 comic strips
- May 1927 comic strips
- June 1927 comic strips
- July 1927 comic strips
- August 1927 comic strips
- September 1927 comic strips
- October 1927 comic strips
- November 1927 comic strips
- December 1927 comic strips
- January 1928 comic strips
- April 1928 comic strips
- June 1928 comic strips
- July 1928 comic strips
- August 1928 comic strips
- September 1928 comic strips
- October 1929 comic strips
1930s[]
- April 1930 comic strips
- May 1930 comic strips
- June 1930 comic strips
- August 1930 comic strips
- September 1930 comic strips
- April 1931 comic strips
- May 1931 comic strips
- January 1932 comic strips
- February 1932 comic strips
- March 1932 comic strips
- April 1932 comic strips
- May 1932 comic strips
- June 1932 comic strips
- July 1932 comic strips
- August 1932 comic strips
- September 1932 comic strips
- October 1932 comic strips
- November 1932 comic strips
- December 1932 comic strips
- January 1933 comic strips
- February 1933 comic strips
- March 1933 comic strips
- April 1933 comic strips
- May 1933 comic strips
- June 1933 comic strips
- July 1933 comic strips
- August 1933 comic strips
- September 1933 comic strips
- October 1933 comic strips
- November 1933 comic strips
- December 1933 comic strips
- January 1934 comic strips
- February 1934 comic strips
- March 1934 comic strips
- April 1934 comic strips
- May 1934 comic strips
- June 1934 comic strips
- July 1934 comic strips
- August 1934 comic strips
- September 1934 comic strips
- October 1934 comic strips
- November 1934 comic strips
- December 1934 comic strips
- January 1935 comic strips
- February 1935 comic strips
- March 1935 comic strips
- April 1935 comic strips
- May 1935 comic strips
- June 1935 comic strips
- July 1935 comic strips
- August 1935 comic strips
- September 1935 comic strips
- October 1935 comic strips
- November 1935 comic strips
- December 1935 comic strips
- January 1936 comic strips
- May 1936 comic strips
- June 1936 comic strips
- July 1936 comic strips
- August 1936 comic strips
- September 1936 comic strips
- October 1936 comic strips
- November 1936 comic strips
- December 1936 comic strips
1940s[]
- September 1943 comic strips
1950s[]
1960s[]
- December 1961 comic strips
- January 1967 comic strips
Cartoons adapted in strips[]
- The Circus (1920) (September 2, 1923)
- Felix Finds a Way (1922) (August 19, 1923)
- Felix Gets Revenge (1922) (August 26, 1923)
- Felix Minds the Kid (1922) (November 4, 1923)
- Fifty-Fifty (1922) (1924)
- Felix Revolts (1923) (February 3, 1924) (loose adaptation)
- Felix on the Farm (1925) (September 23-30, 1928) (loose adaptation)
- Felix in the Cold Rush (1925) (July 25-August 13, 1927)
- Felix Weathers the Weather (1926) (1927)
- Felix Scoots Through Scotland (1926) (1927) (loose adaptation)
- Felix Seeks Solitude (1926) (November 14-26, 1927)
- Gym Gems (1926) (September 5, 1926) (rough adaptation)
- Scrambled Yeggs (1926) (September 26-November 12, 1927)
- Felix Hunts the Hunter (1926) (January 9-16, 1927)
- Felix Dines and Pines (1927) (April 6-18, 1931)
- Icy Eyes (1927) (March 12-31, 1930) (followed by another loosely related continuity featuring Peaches)
- Stars in Stripes (1927) (May 27-June 14, 1930) (loose adaptation)
- Eye Jinks (1927) (June 19, 1927)
- Felix the Cat as Roameo (1927) (November 28-December 21, 1927)
- "Loco"Motive (1927) (July 31-November 13, 1927)
- The Non-Stop Fright (1927) (May 13-30, 1931)
- Wise Guise (1927) (June 16-August 2, 1930)
- Flim Flam Films (1927) (August 4-23, 1930)
- Daze and Knights (1927) (December 22, 1927-1928)
- Uncle Tom's Crabbin' (1927) (April 24-May 26, 1930)
- Felix Hits the Deck (1927) (January 15-April 15, 1928)
- Draggin' the Dragon (1928) (March 14-April 26, 1928)
- Ohm Sweet Ohm (1928) (April 22-June 17, 1928)
- Japanicky (1928) (August 25-September 27, 1930)
- Polly-tics (1928) (April 27-June 2, 1928)
- Comicalamities (1928) (June 4-July 12, 1928)
- Eskimotive (1928) (July 13-August 8, 1928)
- Arabiantics (1928) (October 2-15, 1929) (followed by another continuity about boating home from Arabia, seemingly not based on a cartoon)
- Astronomeows (1928) (June 24-July 28, 1928)
- Romeeow (1929) (April 15-26, 1930)
- Ski Outing (unreleased) (November 8, 1936)
Reprints[]
Comic books[]
- Four Color Issue 15 (1942)
- New Funnies Issue 81 (1943)
- New Funnies Issue 82 (1943)
- Four Color Issue 46 (1944)
- Four Color Issue 77 (1945)
Trivia[]
- Kitty Kat is referred to as "Phyllis" in this strip.