Easy Papa appeared in The New York Herald from May 25, 1902, through February 1, 1903. Verbeek's first strip was Easy Papa, a fairly conventional strip about two mischievous kids and their father, similar to the highly popular contemporary strip The Katzenjammer Kids, which ran in a competing newspaper. He had been a patient there for two months. He was ill for two years, and died on Decemat the Home for Incurables, on Third Avenue and 183rd Street in the Bronx, New York City. He was noted for his expressionist monotypes, which were the subject of an article in The Century Magazine in June 1916. In the 1910s he abandoned cartooning and became a fine artist. In 1900 he moved to the United States, where he did illustrations for magazines such as Harper's, and produced a series of weekly comic strips for newspapers. He grew up in Japan, but went to Paris to study art, and worked for several European newspapers, creating illustrations and cartoons. He was born as Gustave Verbeck ( Dutch: ) in Nagasaki, Japan in 1867, the son of Reformed Church in America missionary Guido Verbeck.
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