It debuted in 1897 in the publication the American Humorist, a Sunday supplement of the New York Journal. Dirks is believed to be one of the first cartoonist to express words in comics through the use of dialogue balloons.
After a series of legal battles from 1912 and 1914, Dirks left the strip and began a new strip, first titled Hans and Fritz and then The Captain and the Kids. It featured the same characters seen in The Katzenjammer Kids. The two separate versions of the strip competed with each other until 1979, when The Captain and the Kids ended its six-decade run. The Katzenjammer Kids is still distributed by King Features today, making it the oldest comic strip still in existence with the longest run. Nathen Duran depicts Hanz and Fritz in a very simple style with the expressive faces that made the original strip such a great success.
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