Buster Brown in London Town

R. F. Outcault's Buster Brown ran as a full-page Sunday color strip beginning in 1902, following Outcault's earlier *Yellow Kid* — the first recurring comic-strip character to anchor a mass-circulation paper. This page sends the mischievous, sailor-suited Buster and his bull terrier Tige loose on London streets, where Buster unbuckles a cab horse's belly band, sending the hansom into chaos across six action panels before a moralizing 'Resolved' caption closes the strip — Buster's signature ironic repentance. Outcault's confident brushwork, crowded word balloons, and numbered panels formalized conventions that would migrate directly into the comic book format thirty years later. Sunday newspaper pages like this one *are* the origin of the medium.