The last newspaper comic strip episode appeared February 15, 1970. Ziff-Davis published two standard-size comic books in 19. Whittlesy House published three books between 19. During this third time that it was published, two sets of reprints came out. On May 18, 1941, the Sunday comic strip feature came back permanently. In 19 four of The Teenie Weenies books were reprinted. It ran for about a year until it was suspended again on December 2, 1934. On September 24, 1933, the daily comic strip was added again to the Chicago Tribune newspaper. In an effort to stimulate new interest in the Teenie Weenies, Reid, Murdock & Company in 1927 issued an eight-page pamphlet called The Teenie Weenies: Their Book. Several books of the strip comic characters were also published by Beckley-Cardey Company and Reilly & Lee. Donahey did advertising for them in The Saturday Evening Post and on their Monarch canned foods line. While the newspaper feature was stopped, Donahey's comic characters were used in advertising for Reid, Murdock & Company. ĭonahey drew the comic strip until Octowhen it was temporarily discontinued. Color versions soon appeared in the magazine section of the newspaper printed in rotogravure.

It then moved to the comics page as a strip cartoon. The comic strip ran as a one panel story with a picture until 1923. This first story was of the Top Hat house burning down. The Teenie Weenies first appeared in black and white in the women's section of the Chicago Tribune on June 14, 1914. Unlike the Brownies where the text was written in verse, Donahey wrote in prose. The strip was inspired by Palmer Cox's The Brownies and was done in the form of text with a single large picture. History The Teenie Weenies in the Wildwood by William Donahey, 1923

They lived with 'real world' size materials made from discarded objects like hats, jars, barrels, kegs, and boxes – all of which were gigantic to them. The comic strip characters were two inches tall and lived under a rose bush. It consisted of normal-size objects intermingled with tiny protagonists. The Teenie Weenies is a comic strip created and illustrated by William Donahey that first appeared in 1914 in the Chicago Tribune and ran for over 50 years. The Teenie Weenies drawn by William Donahey 1916

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