R. F. Outcault's the Yellow Kid
Subtitle: a centennial celebration of the kid who started the comics
By: R.F. Outcault ; [introduction by Bill Blackbeard, foreword by William Randolph Hearst III].
Publisher: Kitchen Sink Press
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Northampton, Mass
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 301
Other titles: Yellow Kid
Description: Who is the Yellow Kid? He's the mischievous street urchin who took New York and the whole country by storm at the end of the nineteenth century. He's the popular comic character who was the prize in a battle between the greatest newspaper titans of the Gilded Age, Joseph Pulitzer of the New York World and William Randolph Hearst of the New York Journal. He danced across the vaudeville stage, and his smiling face and yellow nightshirt appeared on thousands of books, toys, magazines, cookie tins, bars of soap, and myriad other products in Victorian homes. He was the star of the first comic strip, and he's back to celebrate his centennial with a commemorative stamp from the U.S. Postal Service and this volume, which reprints the entire comic strip for the first time since its original appearance in 1895-1898.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references  (p. 299-301).