"(The Yellow Kid) became so popular and sold (so ... Many people thought comics should just be funny, but (Johnston) said she also wanted to tell real stories." Nearly 120 years later, "Lucy ...

With the Yellow Kid at the heart of all this, folks coined the term “Yellow Journalism.” This kicked off a rush by newspapers to find new comics that readers would love. By 1931, one of George ...

No, it’s not the set-up for a punchline, but rather collaboration of like minds among two of the biggest fans of a century-old newspaper comic-strip character: The Yellow Kid. Randy Bish ...

Regardless of which cartoon was actually the original comic strip, what’s certain is that the Yellow Kid was a cultural phenomenon, setting in motion a passion for the “funny papers” in the ...

The whole thing started with Milton Caniff, the influential comic artist whose beloved "Terry and the Pirates" and "Steve Canyon" adventure strips lived in the nation's funny papers for a half ...

OK, look, do you know what ‘The Yellow Kid’ is ... widely popular weekend supplement comic strip in America — the precursor to so many of today’s “funny pages,” and thus also to ...

That goofy guy in the nightgown may look like a twerp, but the Yellow Kid – America's Bart Simpson equivalent during the 1890s – single-handedly launched the comic strip industry. Besides ...