Caspar Milquetoast

The Timid Soul
Milquetoast in Webster's The Timid Soul (Boston Daily Globe, January 13, 1926)
Author(s)	H. T. Webster Herb Roth (1953)
Current status/schedule	Concluded daily panel
Launch date	c. 1925
End date	April 4, 1953
Alternate name(s)	Caspar Milquetoast
Syndicate(s)	World Feature Service (c. 1925–1931) New York Herald Tribune Syndicate (1931–1953)
Genre(s)	Humor

Caspar Milquetoast is a fictional character created by H. T. Webster for his comic strip The Timid Soul.^[1] Webster described Caspar Milquetoast as "the man who speaks softly and gets hit with a big stick". The character's name is derived from a bland and fairly inoffensive food, milk toast, which, light and easy to digest, is an appropriate food for someone with a weak or "nervous" stomach.