Agatha Crumm is a newspaper comic strip created by the cartoonist Bill Hoest (creator of The Lockhorns ) and distributed by King Features Syndicate. [1] The strip ran from October 24, 1977, until 1997. [2] Agatha Crumm was Hoest's third strip, following Bumper Snickers (1974). [3]
The strip's title character was the eccentric, miserly, elderly owner of a cookie company. Comics historian Don Markstein described the active and agile Crumm:
Between 1980 and 1983, Signet Books published three Agatha Crumm paperback collections, including The Return of Agatha Crumm (1982).