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His name was Mickey Dugan. New Yorkers would come to know him as The Yellow Kid. RICHARD FELTON Outcault’s historic Kid was vanished from the public prints by the time the 20th century dawned ...
As it must to all men, Death came last week to Richard Felton Outcault, 65, who caused the phrase, “yellow journalism,” and had a good time doing it. In 1895, having been graduated from the ...
As the story goes, the original Mary Jane was a young female character created by the American cartoonist Richard Felton Outcault in 1902 for his “Buster Brown” comic strip. She was based on ...
Batman, Wonder Woman and the Incredible Hulk all make appearances in “Comic Art: 120 Years of Panels and Pages,” but this Library of Congress exhibition doesn’t emphasize the superheroes who ate ...
The publishing wars started immediately, with a battle between the New York World and the New York Journal over which one owned “The Yellow Kid” after its artist, Richard Felton Outcault ...
Richard Felton Outcault’s "Yellow Kid," Bud Fisher’s "Mutt and Jeff," Rudolph Dirks’s "Katzenjammer Kids," Winsor McCay’s "Little Nemo," George McManus’ "Jiggs and Maggie," Sidney Smith ...
“Hogan’s Alley,” created by Richard Felton Outcault, debuted in 1895 and ran in New York newspapers until 1898. The strip features Mickey Dugan, also known as the Yellow Kid, who has been ...
The following year, after installing a new high-speed multi-color press, he acquired the services of Pulitzer's most popular cartoonist, Richard Outcault. Hearst's American Humorist ...