I remember a comic strip character named "Nippie." The strip was called "Nippie, he's often wrong." The strip appeared on Sunday below the "Mickey Finn" strip. Nippie would get himself into trouble or physically injured by blindly rushing into tempting looking projects, with no thought of the consequences, even after he was warned. He'd get nailed every time, because "he was often wrong". I have been trying to find any information about Nippie on the internet without success. Do you remember the strip?

No, I don't personally remember it, but at http://oldsundaycomics.com/scp32.htm there are some old 'Mickey Finn' and 'Nippie' strips available for sale.
I found this in "The Encyclopedia of American Comics" by Ron Goulart:

For some years the Sunday ('Mickey Finn' strip) had a topper called 'Nippie: He's Often Wrong,' about a willful little boy who insisted on doing things his own way and was ALWAYS wrong. The cautionary note it struck, though seldom very funny, was consistent with the moral tone of the strip it accompanied, wherein evil, or folly, were always duly punished. In fact, there was probably more violence in 'Nippie,' whose hero was always falling out of trees he was warned not to climb or being bitten by dogs he had been told not to tease, than in 'Mickey Finn,' which usually included nothing more threatening than the inevitable black eye after one of Uncle Phil's brawls or the peaceful arrest of a crook.

Though the article doesn't say it, I would assume that 'Nippie' and 'Mickey Finn' were both written and drawn by the same cartoonist, Lank Leonard.

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