Rudolph Dirks created
The Katzenjammer Kids in 1897 for William Randolph Hearst's
American Humorist. Between 1912 and 1914, Dirks and Hearst got into a legal battle over the rights of the characters and Hearst was able to keep the rights to the Katzenjammer Kids name, getting a new artist, Harold H. Knerr, to draw the strip.
Dirks, though, created essentially the same strip again, this time calling it
Hans und Fritz. In 1918, he renamed it to
The Captain and the Kids and it directly competed with
The Katzenjammer Kids for the next several decades, but both remained popular at least through the 1960s.
Here's an ad I stumbled across in a 1940 issue of
Life technically featuring The Captain and the Kids, although it may as well have been the Katzenjammer Kids. I'm fairly confident Dirks himself created this.
Although... comic strip characters talking about how great it is to be regular? By eating "a natural laxative cereal"? Definitely falls under the "Too Much Information" category!
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