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From: chavey@crystal.UUCP (Darrah Chavey)
Newsgroups: net.comics
Subject: Re: Finding Our Boarding House
Message-ID: <38@crystal.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 15-Feb-86 06:58:25 EST
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Posted: Sat Feb 15 06:58:25 1986
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In article <29300018@hpfclg.UUCP>, neutron@hpfcla.UUCP writes:
> About "Our Boarding House":
> 
> From _The Comics_, by Jerry Robinson, p. 229:
> 
>        _Our Boarding House_, later to star the bombastic, stuffed-shirt
>     Major Hoople, was created by Gene Ahern in 1921 ...
> 

According to The Smithsonian Collection of Newspaper Comics (p. 333):
     Our Boarding House, with the braggart Major Hoople, began in 1923 ...
     The strips were the creation of Gene Ahern, born on Chicago's south side
     in 1895. He attended the Chicago Art Institute for three years, hoping
     simply to acquire enough technique to become a funny cartoonist. ...
     Ahern died in 1960.