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The first regular
comic strip
. It was created by
Richard F. Outcault
for the "
New York World
" in 1895. It was originally just a large
illustration
with a few
caption
s scattered here and there--it soon evolved into a full-page color
cartoon
. Under the title "
Hogan's Alley
", the cartoons always featured
New York City
tenement
dwellers doing various
funny
things. Eventually, a
star
emerged--a
bald
-headed kid with
big ears
, wearing a bright
yellow
nightshirt
, on which his
dialogue
was often written. Though he was sometimes called "
Mickey Dugan
", everyone came to know him as "the Yellow Kid."
In 1896,
William Randolph Hearst
, arch-rival of "New York World"
publisher
Joseph Pulitzer
, raided the "World"'s cartooning staff and lured Outcault away. Outcault continued the cartoon for Hearst's papers and Pulitzer
sue
d. The
judge
decided that Outcault could draw his comic strip for anyone, but the name "Hogan's Alley" belonged to Pulitzer, who promptly grabbed a
cartoonist
named
George Luks
to draw Hogan's Alley. Meanwhile, Outcault was drawing his cartoon, now called "
McFadden's Row of Flats
" for Hearst's "
New York Journal
".
Bad blood
between Hearst and Pulitzer continued, and like that, the
infamous
Hearst/Pulitzer
circulation
war was on. From that sprang everything from the modern American comics industry to the term "
yellow journalism
", but eventually, both papers just started calling the strip "
The Yellow Kid
". The
Kid
appeared on everything from
gum
and
postcard
s to
baby clothes
and
household appliance
s. Eventually, Outcault returned to Pulitzer, where he drew a number of other comics, most notably "
Buster Brown
".
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