A. Piker Clerk
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A. Piker Clerk was a short-lived newspaper comic strip created in 1903 by the cartoonist Clare Briggs. It was syndicated in William Randolph Hearst's newspaper Chicago's American for a short period.
A racing related comic running in the sports pages, it featured Mr. Clerk, a character with a gambling problem who would bet on a horse in the Chicago races each day. The following day the strip would feature Mr. Clerk's win or loss.
The strip was cancelled in June 1904, after the newspaper received many complaints against the strip's promotion of gambling. It did however earn Briggs national fame.[1]
[edit] Sources
- A. Piker Clerk. Don Markstein's Toonopedia. Retrieved on 2007-08-21.
- Footnotes
- ^ Lambiek Comiclopedia. Clare Briggs.
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