Buster Brown

Eight panels follow Buster Brown, his dog Tige, and a rotund uncle through a desert camping misadventure: a large tent, an electric fan labeled "Battery," a gathering sandstorm, and escalating comic chaos as the tent collapses around them. The strip closes with Buster's signed "Resolved" monologue — his trademark moral-with-a-wink — datelined Arabia. Outcault had already revolutionized American print culture with *The Yellow Kid* (1895), the strip credited with proving that a recurring drawn character could sell newspapers. *Buster Brown*, launched in 1902 in the *New York Herald*, refined the formula: consistent characters, sequential panels, integrated speech balloons, and a Sunday half-page format that taught readers — and rival cartoonists — how to read comics as comics.