Buster Brown — 1908-04-19

R. F. Outcault's *Buster Brown* ran as a full-page Sunday color strip in the *New York Herald* beginning in 1902, and this Easter episode shows the strip's characteristic mix of slapstick and moral resolution. In nine panels, Buster and his uncle whitewash coconuts to pass them as Easter eggs, loft them from a tree onto the unsuspecting uncle, and end with a basket of cracked 'eggs' and a bruised head. The strip closes with Buster's signed 'Resolved' monologue — a recurring device that pretends to draw a lesson while winking at the mayhem. Outcault, who had earlier launched *The Yellow Kid* (1895), helped establish the Sunday page as a narrative form: multi-panel sequence, speech balloons integrated into the image, and a branded recurring cast — the direct ancestor of the modern comic book.