Your Christmas Funnies: The Yellow Kid
Merry Christmas from the Yellow Kid and the whole Hogan’s Alley gang.
Merry Christmas from the Yellow Kid and the whole Hogan’s Alley gang.
This week, a few more beautiful comics from the 19th century. The Yellow Kid presents the Social Event of the Year in Shantytown, and a Football Match to remember. Enjoy the comics, and enjoy your weekend.
The world’s first comic strip was Richard F. Outcault’s beautiful The Yellow Kid. This week’s entry shows us what a 19th century July 4th was like in the Kid’s tenement neighborhood. Not much has changed.
Well, yes, as we have already mentioned many times before, the world’s first comic strip, Richard F. Outcault’s The Yellow Kid, is not just funny, but also beautiful, and since it has a passing relevance to the world’s new pandemic, we’re running it every week till the pandemic is over, or till we run out […]
We’ve already rhapsodized many times about the wonders of the world’s first comic strip, Richard F. Outcault’s beautiful The Yellow Kid, so we will not again. This week’s entry involves a French restaurant in the Kid’s New York slum. You may contribute to Comics Plus here.
Richard F. Outcault’s “The Yellow Kid,” was not only an innovative comic strip (the first of its kind, in fact), but it was also great art, a slice of life look at a New York slum. Here is another one, from back in the 19th century. Enjoy; and there is more to come. You may […]
As we’ve noted before, The Yellow Kid was the first comic strip, and also one of the only to make even passing reference to risk of pandemics to America’s poor. We’re running them on Sunday till they run out, or the pandemic’s over. Here’s another. You may contribute to Comics Plus here.