Happy Hooligan. Art is long, but Happy is unlucky! F. Opper

Thirteen-panel comic strip shows Happy Hooligan in Paris, preparing to marry his girlfriend Suzanne. While taking a walk in a happy daze, he agrees to help some Parisian urchins who want to draw a portrait on a blank wall. Happy's portrait shows himself being collared by a policeman, and the police do indeed show up and arrest him. The dialogue is carried on in a kind of fractured French, understandable to an English reader. Frederick Opper first drew Happy Hooligan in 1900, and the strip continued for more than 30 years. Happy was a feckless Irish tramp with a tin can for hat. In most strips he fell afoul of the law while trying to help others.
Section title from item (inscribed above top panel).
Inscribed at bottom: The sketches on wall must be left plain black, no color.
Forms part of: Art Wood Collection of Caricature and Cartoon (Library of Congress).
WOOD/Opper.393
Sources: Encyclopedia of American comics, p. 172; World encyclopedia of comics, p. 302-03 ljr