Umbrella Man and the Kid Umbrella Man Beginning November 1, 1909, Dok created a daily cartoon to accompany
The Weather, which featured a character who came to be known as the
Umbrella Man, or "Sport". In the newspaper on May 3, 1913, the weather comic was called
The Umbrella Man, in a front–page box naming the paper's features. Later on, as Dok began to do more cartooning, he gave Sport a sidekick, named the Kid.
The Kid The Kid was a talking duck. He was not part of the
Dippy Duck or
The Waddles cartoon strips, but was the sidekick to the Umbrella Man. He became a regular feature on the front page of
The Seattle Times. Like the Umbrella Man, the Kid sometimes sported an umbrella hat. The two wandered the streets of Seattle in the comic, dispensing wit and wisdom along with weather forecasts. In the early strip, the unnamed duck stood around on the street corner picking fights with whomever passed by. The duck in this cartoon is also known as
The Kid. On May 3, 1913, in a front-page box called "Features of Today's Paper", Dok's cartoon was called "
The Duck. By Dok." On February 10, 1915, the strip was named ''Dok's Dippy Duck'' with no change in what was happening in the plot; the February 10 strip addressed what had happened in the previous day's strip.
The Kid becomes Waddles Waddles was a duck drawn by George Hager for the
Christian Science Monitor in the cartoon strip
The Adventures of the Waddles. According to the Seattle Daily Times, Waddles was a continuation of his father's duck, associated with the weather man. Dok had to discontinue his illustrating when his eyes went, and his children ran the Waddles comic strip. ==Books==