Henry a worthless comic strip still being run in newspapers for geriatrics and inspired Patrick McDonnell

Arnold Buckley
    Henry is some really old comic strip from the thirties that had several different old artists who keep it going in the papers through the generations. Why exactly any modern day newspaper still gives an outlet to this boring comic strip of some bald mute kid who was at times devious to adults and cocky for a kid with no hair. Carl Anderson invested the strip for the Saturday Evening Post after several years in America and Europe as a struggling artist and it was in Germany that inspired much of his life. I don't know perhaps Henry reminded him of some Jewish kid in a concentration camp that had to be extra cautious and quit for the times.

Carl died in 1948 and was continued by his assistants for more decades and I still see it in papers today as this crap is considered some classic crap. it is as bad as that other comic strip with a bald kid that originated in the fifties called Peanuts. henry is not as famous as Charlie brown but his legacy and continuing run must mean there is a fan base of eighty and ninety year olds that are so reminiscent of the antics and storylines of old Henry. This strip has served as inspiration for later more talented comic strips as this strip clearly illustrates. Here is Henry and Gabby getting a little coin from some rich man as beggars on the streets as kids often did for a little jingle during this era. The wealthy tycoon business man gives his nickel or dime handout to the starving kids who are asking for food to feed their hungry dog ahhh.. lets name it Snoopy jr.

The rich man gives the kids money to feed their obviously starving mutt while they go to a butcher shop and eat meat. Somewhere in time Patrick McDonnell saw this strip and it inspired his own "Mutts" comic strip with a big ugly blurry butcher and his meat department. Mutts though is a cool comic strip that is inspired by the look of older comics while Henry is just an old comic strip that sucks ass.