The Yellow Kid

…American cartoonist and creator of The Yellow Kid, a comic cartoon series that was influential in the development of the comic strip.

…eight pages and included the Yellow Kid of Richard Outcault, whom Hearst had enticed away from the New York World. The Yellow Kid, set in a large single scene, not a narrative strip, was the first continuous comic character in the United States. Outcault established earthy, strictly urban farce as…

…from a New York World comic strip created by Richard F. Outcault that featured “the Yellow Kid.” When William Randolph Hearst bought the New York Journal to compete with Joseph Pulitzer’s dominant World, he hired away Outcault. Pulitzer then hired George B. Luks to copy the Yellow Kid. The