- Hejji
"Hejji" was a short-lived 1935
comic strip , an early work and the only strip by prominent children's authorDr. Seuss , the pen name of Theodor Geisel, produced during the period of theGreat Depression .Publication history
Distributed by
William Randolph Hearst 'sKing Features Syndicate , "Hejji" began publication onApril 7 ,1935 , as aSunday strip .Cite web|last=Don Markstein's Toonopedia|title=Hejji|url=http://www.toonopedia.com/hejji.htm] A comic strip with an unusually brief publication period, it was cancelled before the year's end.ynopsis
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.
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* [http://cartoons.osu.edu/finding_aids/sfaca/html/901-1000/0921.html "Hejji" panel] San Francisco Academy of Comic Art Collection;Footnotes
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