Word: outcault
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Dates: during 1928-1928
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William Randolph Hearst of the Journal lured Outcault and his Yellow Kid away from the World along with most of the World's Sunday staff. The World countered with another Yellow Kid series. Serious-minded people pointed to the Yellow Kids as horrible examples, cried out against the "yellow journalism" of both Hearst and Pulitzer.* But Outcault was enjoying himself and his Yellow Kid was shouting: "I wish dat dese lovely wimmin wud leave me alone." He was supposed to have founded these comics on a group of street imps who were burlesquing the Duke of Marlborough...
...Later, Outcault went to the Herald where he created, in 1902, a little devil in pretty clothes-famed Buster Brown. If children cried for Castoria in those days, they kicked papain the shins for Buster Brown and his sweetheart, Mary Jane, and his dog, Tige...
...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...