Buster Brown

Richard Outcault's *Buster Brown* ran in the New York Herald beginning in 1902, following Outcault's earlier *Yellow Kid* — the strip widely credited with proving that a recurring drawn character could anchor a newspaper section and sell papers. This Sunday page follows Buster, his dog Tige, and a hapless fat policeman through nine panels: a hat tossed into a pond, a crocodile-tears con, a catapult built from a plank, and a soaking. The final panel delivers Buster's 'Resolved' moral, his signature device, spoken straight to the reader. Outcault's clean line, expressive figures, and confident panel sequencing helped establish the visual grammar — speech balloons, timed beats, page-wide splash — that Sunday newspaper pages handed directly to the first comic books of the 1930s.