Buster Brown and Uncle Buster

Twelve panels follow Buster Brown receiving a Dutch costume from his globe-trotting Uncle Buster, then deploying wooden shoes as weapons of domestic chaos — performing a "Holland Flip-Flop" and an "Amsterdam Somersault" that ends in furniture-splintering collision. His bulldog Tige offers the strip's driest commentary: "Peach." Outcault closes with Buster's mock-solemn "Resolved" monologue, a recurring device that lets the boy confess mischief in the cadence of a church resolution. Outcault had already invented the modern comic strip with *The Yellow Kid* (1895); *Buster Brown*, launched 1902, refined the formula — stable cast, weekly page, speech balloons integrated into action — that syndicates would industrialize into the comic book form by the 1930s.