Buster Brown

Richard Outcault's *Buster Brown* ran as a full-page Sunday strip in the New York Herald, and this eight-panel page shows Buster's Uncle and his camel Bill on a desert misadventure. The camel refuses water, dances, bucks riders, and generally humiliates everyone — culminating in Buster's trademark closing 'Resolved' moral, here a wry meditation on fair-weather friends. Outcault drew in a loose, energetic line, packing panels with overlapping figures and speech balloons that tumble across the page. He had already invented the modern comic strip with *The Yellow Kid* (1895), establishing recurring characters, sequential panels, and integrated dialogue. *Buster Brown* extended that grammar into the full Sunday color page format that would directly seed the comic book anthology by the 1930s.