TOWARD THE END of the 19th century in Old New York, about half the city’s people were foreign-born, and a great many of them lived crushed together in tenement squalor, and a lot of them were… ...

As it must to all men, Death came last week to Richard Felton Outcault, 65, who caused the phrase, "yellow journalism," and had a good time doing it. In 1895, having been graduated from ...

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As the story goes, the original Mary Jane was a young female character created by the American cartoonist Richard Felton Outcault in 1902 for his “Buster Brown” comic strip.

Richard F. Outcault's goofy, nightshirt-wearing, smart-alecky tyke became the breakout star of the newspaper strip Hogan's Alley, which debuted in 1895. As you may have heard (AND I DEARLY HOPE ...

Richard Felton Outcault’s “Yellow Kid” character, shown in this copyright deposit for “The Yellow Dugan Kid,” was one of the earliest comic strip characters.

“Hogan’s Alley,” created by Richard Felton Outcault, debuted in 1895 and ran in New York newspapers until 1898. The strip features Mickey Dugan, also known as the Yellow Kid, ...