Baron Bean

Baron Bean is a newspaper comic strip created by the cartoonist George Herriman.

[1] Baron Bean replaced Herriman's previous domestic comedy strip, The Dingbat Family, which ran from 1910 to January 4, 1916.

[3] M. Thomas Inge took note of Herriman's interest in silent comedies and observed, "In his appearance, the Baron borrowed his cane and his facial features from Chaplin.

"[4] Comics historian Ron Goulart stated that while Baron Bean superficially resembled Mutt and Jeff, "Herriman usually shunned conventional jokes and it exhibited some of the graphic eccentricities to be found in more abundance in Krazy Kat.

In 2012, IDW's "The Library of American Comics" announced a three-volume reprint of Baron Bean as part of their new LoAC Essentials series.