Alec the Great

Alec the Great was a syndicated newspaper gag panel created by Edwina Dumm and featuring a dog character (as did her other comic strip, Cap Stubbs and Tippie). It ran from 1931 to 1969.^[2]

Alec the Great
Edwina Dumm's dog Sinbad was the model for her cartoon dog characters Tippie, Sinbad and Alec.
Author(s)	Edwina Dumm
Current status/schedule	Gag panel; Concluded
Launch date	1931; 94 years ago (1931)
End date	1969; 56 years ago (1969)
Syndicate(s)	George Matthew Adams Service (1918–1965) The Washington Star Syndicate (1965–1969)[1]
Genre(s)	Humor

Characters and story

In Alec the Great, Dumm illustrated verses written by her brother, Robert Dennis Dumm, about the small dog, Alec. Their collaboration was published as a book, Alec the Great: 1,001 Verses - Wise, Witty and Cheerful (Crown, 1946). Comics historian Maurice Horn notes that Alec looked exactly like Tippie.^[3]

Another dog book by Edwina Dumm was Sinbad: A Dog's Life, published by Coward McCann in 1930. Alec and Tippie both looked like Sinbad, who was based on Dumm's real-life dog Sinbad.