Buster Brown

R. F. Outcault's *Buster Brown* ran as a full-page Sunday strip in the New York Herald from 1902, following his earlier *Yellow Kid* — the strip widely credited with proving that a recurring character could anchor a newspaper feature week after week. Here, Buster and his dog Tige scheme to smuggle an enormous decorated Easter egg through the house past his mother and a succession of alarmed guests; the egg grows more absurd with each panel until chaos erupts in the parlor. Each strip closes with Buster's written "Resolved" — a mock moral that satirizes the very mischief just depicted. Outcault's clean line, confident panel grid, and speech balloons flowing naturally from character to character helped fix the visual grammar that comic books would inherit wholesale.