Carved figural wood plaque of THE YELLOW KID. The Yellow Kid was the first comic character and was created by famous cartoonist Richard Outcault. Measuring approx 9.25" x 4" wide. Novelty item from possibly the Cartoon Art Hall of Fame. See photos. Provenance: Private Nashville TN estate. The Yellow Kid by Richard Felton Outcault (1863-1928) is generally held to be the character that gave birth to American comic strips. The Kid, later named Mickey Dugan by Outcault, was a smallish figure dressed in a nightshirt who roamed the streets of New York in company with other urchins. The Yellow Kid was not a Comic strip, rather he appeared as a character in a series of large single panel color comic illustrations in the New York World with the more or less continuous running title Hogan's Alley. The World published the first of these illustrations, At the Circus in Hogan's Alley, on May 5, 1895. The newspaper's readers, it seems, singled out the Kid as a distinctive character and his popularity led other artists to create similar characters. In short succession these actions gave rise to the comic strip. Outcault was born in Lancaster, Ohio and studied design in Cincinnati before joining the laboratories of Thomas Edison as an illustrator in 1888. By 1890 Outcault combined employment as an illustrator on the Electrical World, a trade journal, with freelance cartoon work for illustrated humor journals such as Puck, Judge, Life, and Truth. The Kid's genesis lay in the genre of city urchin cartoons made popular by these journals. In particular Outcault drew inspiration from Michael Angelo Woolf's work.

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