Item #257071 Cicero's Cat, 1948. 8 panel ink cartoon strip. "Milk is too scarce tolet it go to work even if it is watered." Bud Fisher.

Cicero's Cat, 1948. 8 panel ink cartoon strip. "Milk is too scarce tolet it go to work even if it is watered."

8-22-1948.

Price: $500.00


About the item

Signed "Fisher 8-22-48." last panel. 11 x 24 inches (28 x 62 cm). Framed.

Item #257071

Fisher created Mutt and Jeff, the first successful daily comic strip in the United States. This panel is from the spin-off strip Cicero's Cat starring Desdemona, a cat that Smith originally introduced in 1933 as a pet for Mutt's son, Cicero. This pantomime strip was a "tag along" to Mutt and Jeff, a Sunday-only feature packaged with the Sunday strip. It was a strip that Al Smith worked on as Bud Fisher’s assistant and later inherited from Fisher.  Cicero’s Cat later became an independent full-length strip and lasted about thirty years.