What was the name of the first comic strip, where did it appear, what year and who was the cartoonist?

elburcher

In America, the great popularity of comics sprang from the newspaper war between Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst. The Little Bears was the first American comic with recurring characters; The Yellow Kid the first color comic, part of the first Sunday comic section in 1897 and the source of the term "yellow journalism"); Mutt and Jeff was the first daily comic strip, first appearing in 1907. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comic_strip Oct 22 06, 12:17 AM

elburcher

Mickey Dugan, better known as The Yellow Kid, was the lead character in Hogan's Alley, the first comic strip and the first to be printed in color in mass production. The strip was drawn by artist Richard F. Outcault. It first appeared on a few occasions in Truth magazine 1894–1895 in black and white print, but gained immense popularity in New York City in 1895 when it debuted in Joseph Pulitzer's New York World as a black and white cartoon on 17 February 1895 and subsequently as a color cartoon on 5 May 1895. Outcault moved the Yellow Kid to William Randolph Hearst's New York Journal American in 1897. Pulitzer hired George Luks to draw a second version of the strip in the World, and thus the Yellow Kid appeared simultaneously in two competing papers. Both versions ended in 1898. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Yellow_Kid Oct 22 06, 12:22 AM

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