Mutt and Jeff

Mutt & Jeff in Mutt a la Sherlock Holmes (15 march 1930)

Mutt and Jeff is a long-running and widely popular American newspaper comic strip created by cartoonist Bud Fisher in 1907 about "two mismatched tinhorns". It is commonly regarded as the first daily comic strip.

The series includes at least 6 strips related to Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes published in various American newspapers from 1918 and 1946.

In 1926, an animated movie starring Mutt & Jeff was released : Slick Sleuths (Modern Film Sales Corporation).

Comic strips

1918

• 17.06.1918 : Mutt Knows More About Sherlock Holmes Than Sherlock Does Himself

1921

• 14.06.1921 : At Deduction Sherlock Holmes had Nothing on Jeff

1930

• 15.03.1930 : Mutt a la Sherlock Holmes

1934

• 04.06.1934 : Jeff Must Have Been Reading Sherlock Holmes

1944

• 01.09.1944 : As Sherlock Holmes Would Say, "Elementary, Dear Lady, Elementary"

1946

• 21.01.1946 : Sherlock Mutt and Watson Jeff Will Pull an Anti-Baker St.

Video

Slick Sleuths (1926)

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• Conan Doyle in comics
• Sir Arthur Conan Doyle