Hurd, a native of Kansas City, Missouri, was a cartoonist for The Chicago Journal and The New York Herald.

The series is notable for the first example of a character appearing "out of the inkwell", years before the Fleischer Brothers.

He and Bray developed and patented cel animation in 1914, which eliminated needs to redraw the background.

Animation historian Giannalberto Bendazzi has called Hurd "probably the best American animator of his time" after Bray and said of his films that they "display an uncommon visual inventiveness, gentle humour and attention to drawing and scenography".

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