The Teenie Weenies is a comic strip created and illustrated by William Donahey (19 October 1883 – 2 February 1970).

[2] The comic strip characters were two inches tall[2][3] and lived under a rose bush.

[4] They lived with "real world" size materials made from discarded objects like hats, jars, barrels, kegs, and boxes – all of which were gigantic to them.

[4] The strip was inspired by Palmer Cox's The Brownies and was done in the form of text with a single large picture.

[4] Unlike the Brownies where the text was written in verse, Donahey wrote in prose.

[4] The Teenie Weenies first appeared in black and white in the women's section of the Chicago Tribune on June 14, 1914.

[5] Color versions soon appeared in the magazine section of the newspaper printed in rotogravure.

[4][5] Donahey drew the comic strip until October 26, 1924, when it was temporarily discontinued.

While the newspaper feature was stopped, Donahey's comic characters were used in advertising for Reid, Murdock & Company.

[4][5] Donahey did advertising for them in The Saturday Evening Post and on their Monarch canned foods line.

[5] Several books of the strip comic characters were also published by Beckley-Cardey Company and Reilly & Lee.

In an effort to stimulate new interest in the Teenie Weenies, Reid, Murdock & Company in 1927 issued an eight-page pamphlet called The Teenie Weenies: Their Book.

[4] On September 24, 1933, the daily comic strip was added again to the Chicago Tribune newspaper.

[4] On May 18, 1941, the Sunday comic strip feature came back permanently.

[4] Donahey died February 2 of the same year and never saw the last episode published.

[5] Donahey's comic strip characters tended to be named after their most prominent characteristics, examples being the Sailor, the Chinese man, the Cook, the Policeman, the Lady of Fashion, the Dunce, the Old Soldier with a Wooden Leg, etc.

the babies' mother: see "Tess (Bone / Guff / Turk)".

Like the Army, an unnamed band later replaced by individual Teenie Weenies.

The editor of Harvey Magazine # 7 renamed the Chinese man "Henry".

At first vain and interested only in clothes, she became the village school-mistress, nurse, etiquette supervisor, and housekeeper.

"Colored" nursemaid, full name Capatola Victrola Pinchneck Jackson.

Wearing a mortarboard and spectacles, never named but quite prominent in the earliest strips.. --.

A savage tribe of "Wild Men" living near the Teenie Weenies (in Michigan?)

Referred to as "The Sailor's Wife" on a deck of trading cards in 1928.

Jack Frost, the Easter Bunny and Father Time also made appearances in dreams or tales told by the elders, but cannot really be counted.

(Snip is also the name of the baby in Donahey's other comic strip, The Pixeys.)

The 1/1/1945 cut-out (who doesn't appear in the story) is "Teenie Weenie Soldier", carrying a gun and wearing a uniform similar to the General's.

Not named in the 1933 incarnation, but there is an unnamed matron, the mother of Snip.

Not a true Teenie Weenie, rather an illustration of a Halloween song in Teenie Weenie Land, and a top-of-page illustration (riding a bat) in the 10/26/24 strip.

"The Teenie Weenies: Their Book" 8 page pamphlet [Reid-Murdock & Company, 1927] "The Teenie weenies: Their Book" 20 pages [Reid Murdock & Company, 1926] "Teenie Weenies In The Wildwood" [Jr Ed], Rand-McNally [1940] "Nemo" magazine #6 [Apr/May 1951] 2 articles "Past Times" magazine Vol.