Hejji

Hejji was a short-lived 1935 comic strip, an early work and the only comic strip by prominent children's author Dr. Seuss (pseudonym of Theodor Geisel). Hejji was produced by Geisel during the Great Depression, two years before the publication of his first book.

Dr. Seuss' Hejji (April 7, 1935)

Distributed by William Randolph Hearst's King Features Syndicate, Hejji began publication on April 7, 1935, as a Sunday strip. A comic strip with an unusually brief publication period, it was cancelled after three months, the final comic published on June 23, 1935.[1]

Characters and story

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, a flower broadcasting music and twin goats sharing a single beard. Hejji inadvertently plucks the sacred Trumpet Flower and is promptly arrested. He is taken to the palace of the Mighty One, who has Hejji thrown to the Seven Deadly Wombats. After Hejji escapes, the Mighty One apologizes and gives him a guided tour of Baako. They encounter various creatures and eventually arrive at the mysterious castle of the Evil One.

Recycling characters

Characters and situations from Hejji reappeared in later Dr. Seuss work. For example, the two goats with the single beard reappeared in the musical fantasy film The 5000 Fingers of Dr. T, scripted by Geisel.

gollark: Phones have anemic GPUs and CPUs are not good whatsoever for mining tasks.
gollark: Mining is generally not competitive without ASICs or giant GPU farms.
gollark: Oh, obvious problem, quite a lot of messages by people who aren't me *are* actually fairly gollarious, so just fixing their gollariosity at 0 during training is bad.
gollark: We *are* bound by the PIERB.
gollark: This is basically the same issue as sentiment analysis, after all, which is well-studied.

References

  1. Hejji at Don Markstein's Toonopedia, Archived from the original on December 11, 2015.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.