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Wednesday, March 12, 2026

That’s Horse Cents!

In 1907, Bud Fisher drew the first successful daily comic strip, Mutt and Jeff, starting out at just $15.00 per week. This strip about the race track soon became so successful and eventually made him so rich that he became the owner of the largest stable of thoroughbred horses in America! Hey, didja notice how similar the self-portrait of Bud Fisher looks so similar to the pic of Wacky Wonder Woman below?!? Is dis a system?!


— C. Yoe (in the funny papers)

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This entry was posted on Wednesday, March 12th, 2008 at 12:05 am.
Posted in Weird But True | 3 Comments »

3 Responses to “That’s Horse Cents!”

  1. Michael Burton Says:
    March 12th, 2008 at 2:00 am

    Man! Fifteen bucks must have gone a lot farther then than it does now.

  2. Craig Yoe Says:
    March 12th, 2008 at 6:20 am

    Thanks Michael. I’ve rephrased things a bit to make me seem a lttle less dumb.

  3. STWALLSKULL » Interesting Links: March 12th, 2008 Says:
    March 12th, 2008 at 12:35 pm

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