Buster Brown Milks the Cow with the Crumpled Horn

Nine panels plus a splash header follow Buster Brown's disastrous attempt to milk a crumple-horned cow on Uncle Jack's farm, with his bulldog Tige and a small companion watching. The cow kicks, bucks, and soaks Buster repeatedly; a final text block delivers Buster's mock-solemn "Resolved," his signature moral—here vowing next time to use a pump. Outcault draws in confident ink line with crosshatch shading, expressive animal anatomy, and speech balloons nested naturally into the action. These New York Herald Sunday pages were among the first to standardize sequential panel grids and recurring cast, supplying the direct template—reprinted collections and all—from which the comic book format emerged within two decades.