Buster Brown

Eight panels follow young Buster Brown and his bulldog Tige as they accompany a heavily bundled woman through what appears to be a Chinese dry-goods shop, where the drowsy uncle-proprietor is asleep at the counter. Buster's mischief escalates until the woman faints; the strip closes with Outcault's signature 'Resolved' moral panel — Buster's deadpan ethical summary delivered straight to the reader. Outcault had already revolutionized comics with *The Yellow Kid* (1895), the first strip to deploy speech balloons systematically; *Buster Brown*, launched in the *New York Herald* in 1902, refined that grammar — regular cast, sequential gag structure, recurring moral coda — into the template Sunday newspaper strips handed directly to comic books thirty years later.