Jerry on the Job

Jerry on the Job is a comic strip created by cartoonist Walter Hoban, set for much of its run in a railroad station.

Syndicated by William Randolph Hearst's International Feature Service, it originally ran from 1913 to 1931.

[4] Hoban died in 1939, but his former assistant, Bob Naylor, revived Jerry on the Job as a syndicated strip for King Features, starting on Oct. 21, 1946.

[3] From 1916 to 1920, Jerry on the Job was adapted by International Film Service and Bray Studios into a series of animated films, including The Mad Locomotive, Cheating the Piper, A Thrilling Drill, Swinging His Vacation and Without Coal.

[6] Hoban's work was a strong influence on cartoonist Merrill Blosser and his comic strip Freckles and His Friends, which ran from 1915 to 1971.

Jerry with pickaxe (1919)