Buster Brown

Eight panels follow Buster Brown, his dog Tige, and a rotund adult called "Champion" through a slapstick skiing misadventure. The Champion brags, wobbles, crashes, and is buried in snow while the boys mock him; the final panel delivers Buster's moralizing "Resolved" speech, the strip's signature device. Outcault's draftsmanship is fluid and kinetic—figures tumble across diagonal slopes, speech balloons jostle for space, and sequential action flows naturally left-to-right across the page. Outcault had already invented the modern comic strip with *The Yellow Kid* (1895); *Buster Brown*, launched in 1902, refined recurring-character storytelling and the Sunday full-page format that gave later anthology comic books their direct template.