Hejji
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Hejji was a short-lived 1935 comic strip, an early work and the only strip by prominent children's author Dr. Seuss, the pen name of Theodor Geisel, produced during the period of the Great Depression.
[edit] Publication history
Distributed by William Randolph Hearst's King Features Syndicate, Hejji began publication on April 7, 1935, as a Sunday strip.[1] A comic strip with an unusually brief publication period, it was cancelled before the year's end.
[edit] Synopsis
The title character was a traveler who, in the first strip, entered the strange land of Baako, which had whales swimming in water-filled volcano craters and twin goats sharing a single beard. Hejji inadvertently plucks the sacred Trumpet Flower and is promptly arrested.
Instances and characters from Hejji such as the goats with connected beards would reappear in later Dr. Seuss work.[1]
[edit] Sources
- Hejji panel San Francisco Academy of Comic Art Collection
- Footnotes
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