Buster Brown — Omaha Sunday Bee, February 21, 1909

Tucked into the Sunday edition of *The Omaha Sunday Bee*, this page carries one of the era's most celebrated comic strips: Buster Brown, created by Richard Outcault for the New York Herald in 1902. The strip follows the well-dressed, mischievous boy, his long-suffering dog Tige, and his patient family through a recurring structure — pranks, consequences, and Buster's mock-solemn "Resolution" panel closing each installment. Outcault had already transformed American visual culture with *The Yellow Kid* (1895), pioneering the speech balloon as a storytelling device. Sunday color supplements across hundreds of syndicated papers like this Omaha broadsheet were the primary delivery mechanism for sequential comic art, directly prefiguring the comic book format that would consolidate these pages into bound form by the 1930s.