I am 55, a cartoonist and graphic artist and love all the old toons in print and films. My dad used to read a comic book to me at night in installments to leave me in suspense :) and between them and the funnies is how I learned to read at an early age. My father was a cartoonist and artist also and I was always fascinated by the graphics/drawings. Some of my first 'art' was copying the comic strips.

On to the question, which were the oldest toons in print. I remember reading ones like the The Katzenjammer Kids which was first published in Dec 1897. Do you have a compiled timeline of the of the strips by their first publication dates?

In addition to old toons, I am also a fan of the old silent movies, the music of the late 1900's through the middle 1930'. I've been told I'm an old soul, reincarnated from that time period.