Buster Brown

Richard Outcault's *Buster Brown* ran as a full-color Sunday page for the *New York Herald* beginning in 1902, making this Easter-themed strip a mid-run example of the feature at full confidence. Here, the mischievous boy and his bull terrier Tige purchase eggs, suspend them from a gas-jet fixture, and booby-trap the dining room for a visiting Sunday-school teacher—who duly sits on them. Outcault had already invented the modern newspaper comic page with *The Yellow Kid* (1895–98), establishing speech balloons, sequential panels, and a recurring cast as stable conventions. *Buster Brown* refined that grammar: consistent character design, punch-line final panels, and a mock-moral 'Resolved' text block closing each strip—a structure comic artists would inherit for the next century.