Word: outcault
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...mistaken in this! I have been a constant reader of the New York World for some 30 years and have no recollection of its editions ever having been printed on yellow paper. The origin of the opprobious "yellow journalism" came about through a "comic" drawn by R. F. Outcault, called "The Yellow Kid." This appeared first in the World; scored such a hit that Hearst bought Outcault away from Pulitzer. It depicted a street gamin who wore a yellow night shirt, on which was inscribed all the gutter chatter and slang of that day, and it was out of that...
Louis B. PARSONS New York City. Reader Parsons is correct. The Outcault strip was called "Hogan's Alley." It was continued in the World, after Outcault went to Hearst, by George B. Tuks. Then there were two "Yellow Kids." two yellow journals. - ED. B rownsville-Mexico City
...Outcault drew his last Buster Brown ten years ago, but the boy lived in the syndicates until...
...last years of Outcault were devoted to the painting of landscapes and portraits, to an advertising business, to practical jokes (he played a piano at 5 a. m. in a Flushing, L. I., house which people thought haunted...
Died. Richard F. Outcault, 65, famed comic supplement artist (Buster Brown), who drew Hogan's Alley, the first full-page colored comic strip ever published (New York World, 1895); after a long illness; in Flushing...