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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.

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  • October 1929 comic strips

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1940s[]

  • September 1943 comic strips

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1960s[]

  • December 1961 comic strips
  • January 1967 comic strips

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  • Kitty Kat is referred to as "Phyllis" in this strip.

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