As I am sure many of you know, during the silent era many American cartoon shorts starred popular comic strip stars of the day. The Katzenjammer Kids, Happy Hooligan, Krazy Kat and Mutt and Jeff all had their own cartoon series in the silent era. Another comic strip that got the animated cartoon treatment was Judge Rummy. This strip ran from 1910 until 1922, and the cartoons based off it ran from 1918 to 1922. The stories of both centered around a anthropomorphic dog, who works as a judge. However he always seems to have more interest in alcohol, much to the annoyance of his battle-axe wife. To advertise this cartoon series, a comic strip about the character becoming a movie star appeared in a 1919 issue of the magazine Film Fun. This is below.
Note: I'm sorry that this strip runs over the margins, but that is the only way I could find to post it without it being blurry.
As an added bonus here is one of the Judge Rummy cartoons, A Fitting Gift (1920).
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