Baron Bean

Baron Bean is a newspaper comic strip created by the cartoonist George Herriman. Baron Bean was distributed by King Features Syndicate.

Herriman drew his domestic comedy strip, The Dingbat Family, until 1916. From January 5, 1916 through January 22, 1919, Herriman also drew the daily Baron Bean. Herriman continued to draw other strips in addition to Krazy Kat through 1932.

M. Thomas Inge took note of Herriman's interest in silent comedies and observed, "In his appearance, the Baron borrowed his cane and his facial features from Chaplin." Comics historian Ron Goulart stated that while Baron Bean superficially resembled Mutt and Jeff, "Herriman usually shunned conventional jokes and it exhibited some of the graphic eccentricities to be found in more abundance in Krazy Kat." Herriman had previously drawn a similar character, Baron Mooch, in 1909-10.

In 1977, the strips were collected in Baron Bean: 1916-1917 (Hyperion Press).

In 2012, IDW's "Library of American Comics" plans for three yearly volumes of Baron Bean in their new "LOAC: Essentials" series. The first volume came out in September 2012 and covered the year 1916, the second came out in December 2014 and covered the year 1917. The final will cover 1918 and 1919.

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