Hully gee! Let’s all wish a happy happy birthday to the man who created comics in America as we know them, the great R.F. Outcault (14 January 1863-25 September 1928)!
Starting with Pulitzer’s New York World in 1895, he introduced The Yellow Kid, which became such a success that Hearst lured him to the New York Journal a year later, sparking imitators at his old job and lawsuits over title rights:
In 1902, he brought us Buster Brown and his glorious dog, the bull terrier Tige. Buster dressed like Little Lord Fauntleroy but behaved like Peck’s Bad Boy, and Tige provided the Greek chorus:
(via turner-d-century)
