The Yellow Kid

The Yellow Kid was the main character in the series Hogan's Alley, an American newspaper strip by Richard F. Outcault and published between 1895-98. Such was his success that he gave rise to the term tabloid by appearing simultaneously in Joseph Pulitzer's New York World and William Randolph Hearst's New York Journal. The series is also remembered in comic history for being the first to use balloons or speech bubbles to contain the characters' dialogue, although the boy usually communicates through phrases that appeared printed on his shirt.
==Appearances==
The Yellow Boy was a boy with disheveled teeth and a silly smile, who wearing a yellow nightshirt shared an alley with other equally unkempt characters. He rarely spoke, his language being fringe slang, typical of the ghetto.
==History==
The strip, the work of Richard F. Outcault, appeared occasionally in Truth magazine (1894-1895) as a black-and-white macro vignette, with the character still playing a supporting role.
When the series debuted on February 17, 1895 in Joseph Pulitzer's New York World, it soon gained immense popularity in the city, and from May 5, 1895, it was published in color. The use of yellow was then tried on the boy's shirt, which had not yet been satisfactorily resolved, becoming a characteristic feature of it.
The cartoon of February 16, 1896 has gone down in the history of the medium, because it showed a dialogue balloon through which a parrot exclaims: "Sic em towser!", Although in the series this resource never ceased to coexist with other forms of act out the dialogues, as mentioned above.
A panel published on November 15, 1896 in McFadden's Row of Flats, Hearst's Sunday color supplement to Hearst's New York Journal. Note the presence of the balloons, the violence of the action and the confusing and chaotic drawing.
In 1897 Outcalt continued The Yellow Boy in William Randolph Hearst's New York Journal. Pulitzer then hired George Luks to draw a second version of the strip in New York World, which is why The Yellow Boy for a time appeared simultaneously in two competing newspapers. The New York Press newspaper coined the term "yellow journalism" earlier that year to describe the work of both Pulitzer and Hears.
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