The Yellow Kid: Hero of Hogan's Alley
September 15, 2005 - January 13, 2006
The Ohio State University Cartoon Research Library
27 West 17th Avenue Mall, Columbus, Ohio
The Yellow Kid has been described as the first comic strip
superstar. His popularity was so enormous that the great
rival newspapers in New York City, Joseph Pulitzer's New
York World and William Randolph Hearst's New York Journal,
at one time ran competing versions of the Yellow Kid drawn
by two cartoonists. The Kid was successfully merchandised
by a wide range of products from cigarettes and game cards
to dolls and sheet music.
Richard Felton Outcault (1863-1928) created the comic strip
Hogan's Alley, which is considered to be the first significant
comic strip in American newspapers. It debuted in 1895 and
featured Mickey Dugan, who is better known as the Yellow
Kid.
This exhibition features rare examples of original full-color
newspaper pages featuring the Yellow Kid from the San Francisco
Academy of Comic Art Collection
