Buster Brown

Twelve panels follow Buster and his bull terrier Tige hatching a scheme to fake drowning and frighten Aunt Emeline — leaving clothes on the riverbank while they hide in the bushes. Bumble bees rout them, their clothes vanish, and Buster must streak naked into the creek. The strip closes with its trademark "Resolved" moral, Buster in his Little Lord Fauntleroy suit confessing he fooled only himself. Outcault had already invented the modern Sunday page with *The Yellow Kid* (1895); *Buster Brown*, launched in 1902 in the New York Herald, refined the grammar further — sequential panels, integrated speech balloons, a recurring cast, and a punchline moral that gave parents cover for the chaos children adored.