Word: outcault
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...oldest color page with a continuous existence in newspaper history. The World had the first of all U. S. colored comic strips, "The Yellow Kid"-a gamin whose street argot later gave rise to the term "yellow journalism"-produced by the late Richard Felt on ("Buster Brown") Outcault Hearst lured Outcault to the Journal. Meanwhile the Journal's new "Katzenjammer Kids" had struck popular fancy. The World saw its chance to retaliate for the loss of the "Yellow Kid" and won Dirks away from the Journal which, outraged, unsuccessfully sued the World, but won the right to the title...
...Anaconda Standard bureau. It was like a metropolitan gem set in a mountain wasteland. The finest mechanical equipment was bought. In the early days of the Mergenthaler linotype machine, the Anaconda Standard at one time had more of them in operation than had any Manhattan daily. When Richard F. Outcault's "Yellow Kid" ushered colored comics into the Manhattan field, Publisher Daly had to have some, sent for Thorndyke, Trowbridge, Loomis, then three of the highest-priced newspaper artists in the country. Color decks and photo-engraving equipment were rushed to Anaconda and the Standard produced its own four...