the yellow kid

Why Richard Outcault Is The Father of Comics as We Know Them
Why Richard Outcault Is The Father of Comics as We Know Them
Why Richard Outcault Is The Father of Comics as We Know Them
It was Richard Felton Outcault, born this day in 1863, who first put together what we would recognize as a modern comic strip. While he did not necessarily invent all of these innovations, elements we would consider essential parts of a comic strip — panel borders, panel to panel continuity, word balloons, recurring characters, publication in a newspaper in color on Sunday, and so on — were first put together into a gestalt by Outcault in his strip Hogan's Alley, better known by its colloquial title, The Yellow Kid.