The Yellow Kid

The Yellow Kid or Mickey Dugan was the first modern comic strip that appeared in the New York World from 1895. It was invented and drawn by Richard F. Outcault.

For the first time he had previously already appeared in the series At the circus in Hogan's Alley, which was published in the same newspaper. The figure Mickey Dugan is a child who is dressed in a yellow nightie, causing the nickname The Yellow Kid emerged and asserted itself soon. His remarks did not appear in the typical balloons that also appeared with most other characters in this comic series, but were always shown on his nightshirt and his language was a peculiar ghetto language.

As of 1896 the author was then changed with his comic of the New York World for the New York Journal of William Randolph Hearst, whereupon the New York World hired George Luks to continue the series, so that by 1898, when both series were set, two versions of the comics appeared in competing newspapers.

It's called, The Yellow Kid gave the Yellow Press her name. But this is not definitively established. At least the slogan "Yellow Kid Journalism " in 1897 by the New York Press coined to describe the circulation war between Pulitzer and Hearst. It was probably, this is a play on words that touched down on the already established term " yellow press ". Anyway, both versions have since been used interchangeably in the English-speaking world and in the absence of a similar ideological genesis of the legend holds the Yellow Kid as a name of an entire newspaper genus persistent.

The Yellow Kid was a great success: the underprivileged of American society were able to identify with him and his attempts to escape the misery. Additionally did The Yellow Kid comic strips in the ( American ) newspapers popular, so many publishers by subscribers for their newspapers were on the lookout. With the expansion of the strips on longer stories and all sides of the modern comic book was born.