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Who Invented the Comic Strip and Who Was the First Comic Strip Character Ever?

March 16, 2020 by Karen Hill

Richard Felton Outcault is widely regarded to have invented the modern comic strip, and was born on January 14, 1863.

Outcault’s “Yellow Kid’ is considered the first comic strip character, and appeared in Hearst’s New York Journal in 1896.

The Kid was a bald, floppy-eared, buck-toothed, grinning kid in a huge yellow shirt.

Barefoot and pigeon-toed, he appeared center stage to the goings-on of the other characters in fictitious Hogan’s Alley.

Outcault was later the creator of the famous cartoon character Buster Brown.

Richard Outcault was inducted into the Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame in 2008.

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About Karen Hill

Karen Hill is a freelance writer, editor, and columnist. Born in New York, her work has appeared in the Examiner, Yahoo News, Buzzfeed, among others.

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