Agatha CrummAgatha Crumm is a newspaper comic strip created by the cartoonist Bill Hoest and distributed by King Features Syndicate. The strip ran from October 24, 1977, until 1997. Agatha Crumm was Hoest's third strip, following Bumper Snickers.Characters and storyThe strip's title character was the eccentric, miserly, elderly owner of a cookie company. Comics historian Don Markstein described the active and agile Crumm:BooksBetween 1980 and 1983, Signet Books published three Agatha Crumm paperback collections, including The Return of Agatha Crumm.