Your Sunday Funnies: Sunday, February 7, 1926

RUBE GOLDBERG lived from 1883 to 1970, and he is remembered principally as the originator of the “Rube Goldberg Machine,” elaborate, ridiculous contraptions that take many steps to complete a simple task, and which are constantly mimicked and referenced even today. But before he was famous for his machines, he wrote a comic strip called Bertha The Siberian Cheesehound and another one called (quite unfortunately) Boob McNutt. These are not remembered today, not at all. Here’s a Bertha strip, from 1926, for your edification.

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