Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-11-06
BUSTER BROWN IN THE FLESH
Man who Draws Celebrated Cartoons Payr
Omaha Visit.
TELLS The origin OF strs FUNNY BOY
just Loves "Kids" and Delights In
watching Their Antics and Then
Puts Them ON
Paper.

! Richard f. outcault, cartoonist, father
OF Buster Brown. the Yellow Kid and
many other notable characters, arrived in
the city Sunday for his entertainment at
the Boyd this afternoon. with his man
ager he is stopping at the Her Grand
What do you think of newspaper
man that needs a manager" said Mr..
Outcault.
Readers of The Omaha Bee are familiar
with Buster Brown for he comes to the
reading public of Omaha each Sunday by
means of The Bee and children all cry for
it. Mr.. Outcault Is making a tour of the
country, giving illustrated talks on car
toons. He does not like the name lecture
to be applied to his talks because that
sounds too formal, when the idea is more
of an entertainment, especially adapted
for the younger people, with lots of meat
for the older folks.
Mr.. Outcault is noted as a story teller
and is famous as a chestnut detector.
priding himself with being always there"
with fresh story Mr.. Outcault is often
| asked how he came to be a cartoonist and
| in reply to that question Sunday night
said:
How He Happened.
"Oh, l just worked into it, You never
See d man succeed IN 1nlS business VINO
sets out to be funny. Take some man
with talent who wants to be an artist or
an actor or something more serious and
he suddenly discovers that he is better
fitted to go into the comic field The
Buster Brown pictures are natural Sc
| quences of my fad for jokes and stories.
1 need some vehicle or clothes line on
which to present them to the public and
! hit upon Buster to carry out my plan.
! When / started out to draw chlldrens
/ pictures 1t was because / saw there was
! fine opening for such a line of work.
| Besides 1 love children. Wilton Lackaye
| has child with him here at the hotel
| which he dresses like Buster. and you
should have seen him look at me just now
| when Mr.. Lackaye told him that l was
! Busters papa. 1 don't see how anyone
| could help but be fond of kids. To me
! kid humor is the brightest humor of all
! just good and clear like kids themselves.
Then the child proposition appeals to all.
l have two children of my own at home,
and ] know what am talking about.
! Children all over are crazy about
Buster and his dog Tige. 1 am glad The
Bee is publishing these pictures, for
! know that every boy and girl in town will
want to see Buster and Tige. 1 was at
show was in progress and the word got
out that Busters pa was on the stage. The
kids poured down from the gallery to the
stage door 20 see Buster and his pa. I
! had to do something to dispense the crowd
so | called out, Buster. take Tige and go
over to the hotel at once The hotel was
soon as damned the theater.
Just Feels for a Laugh.
| ftNOu ffoir NJ he t.
billed a lecture. but it is not lecture
and don't want people to think that 1 am
going to lecture them What 1 have is a
crazy quilt of the most idiotic things that
can think Of and l am just trying to
make people laugh for one hour and
fifty minutes. When deliver those patches
of crazy quilts 1 need the whole stage to
do IT,"
After the lecture at the Boyd Monday
afternoon, Mr.. Outcault will pass down
Sixteenth street in front of the Boston
store and two suits. a large one and a
small one. will be given to the first boys
who can recognize him. At the matinee
today Mr.. Outcault will give away picture
cards OF the famous Buster Brown.
Mr.. Outcault is a jolly good fellow OF
the old newspaper school who has kept
pace with modern ideas, so much so that
|
salary. four theatrical companies are pay
ing him large profits each week. st. Louis
| shoe manufacturer is paying him a royalty
on every pair of Buster Brown shoes
| turned out suit firm pays for the use
| of the Buster Brown idea and even a
baker is making Buster Brown bread. He
is we'll groomed and the boys who look for
him in front OF the Boston Store this after
noon will see man about six feet tall,
wears glasses and has a black mustache.
Like most artists who sketch, Mr.. Out
cault has to work, but unlike many of them
he does not have to worry about where the
wherewithal will come from to pay his
board bill. Some artists can draw pictures
but few can draw the cash that he does. and
right to be welded to art and also to di-
vorce the public and newspaper publishers
from some of their coin.
THE worry OF my life is some of these
long-haired young fellows with the big
work and then to send them on to New
York with a recommendation to some man
aging editor tell them all that it is not
so much how they draw but what they
draw that takes. tell them to put the
right ideas into their work and they can
easily dispose OF it,"
Mr.. Outcault is making an extended
western trip, going from Omaha to Den
yer, where he will let Tige try to catch a
bear. or a wildcat which he will send to
President Roosevelt, while he is gathering
in few silver dollars with his lecture and
drawing a few more cartoons for The Sun
day Bee.