Buster Brown New Year's Feast

R.F. Outcault's *Buster Brown* strip depicts the mischievous boy and his dog Tige attempting to smuggle food into a kitchen for a New Year celebration. The comic employs the visual vocabulary that newspapers had pioneered: sequential panels with speech balloons advancing a narrative gag, recurring characters readers knew intimately, and exaggerated line work for comedic effect. Published in color on Sunday pages, *Buster Brown* reached millions and influenced how stories could be told through images.