Existing comment:
(67) McFadden's Row of Flats. Inauguration of the Football Season in McFadden's Row, 1896. Variant of cartoon published in the New York Journal, November 15, 1896. India ink over graphite underdrawing
with scraping out.
Art Wood Collection of Cartoon and Caricature
Prints and Photographs Division
LC-DIG-ppmsca-03344 (67)
Capturing the spirit of football season in the rough and tumble world of the tenements of New York, the Yellow Kid runs with the ball. Richard Outcault (1863-1928) endearingly named him Mickey Dugan. He is considered to be the first popular newspaper comic strip character. Outcault, lured away from Pulitzer's New York World, created this particular page within weeks of his transfer to Hearst's New York Journal and included in many references to the switch. Outcault had produced cartoons for such American humor magazines as Truth, Life, and Judge before creating the Yellow Kid and the extremely popular Buster Brown. |