When William Randolph Hearst lured Opper from his cartooning duties at PUCK magazine, he was already a successful artist. Opper, however, jumped at the chance and produced Happy Hooligan, a vagrant anti-hero who comes out very badly from the end of each strip, no matter how much good he might mean. His perennial demise surely went on to influence Wile E. Coyote and Mr. O, especially as his own cowardice and unworthiness always contributes to his hilarious downfall.
- ISBN10 1561635421
- ISBN13 9781561635429
- Publish Date 8 January 2009
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 7 August 2014
- Publish Country US
- Imprint NBM Publishing Company
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 110
- Language English