biography
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Outcault, Richard (Felton)
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| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1863–1928)
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| biography:
| Cartoonist, born in Lancaster, Ohio, USA. In 1894 his cartoons depicting children in the New York City slums, entitled Hogan's Alley, became a regular series for the New York World. The cartoons provoked protests from the social establishment but charmed the reading public, which nicknamed the series, ‘The Yellow Kid’, a title that later inspired the term, ‘yellow journalism’ to describe the sensationalistic reporting of the day. In 1902 he introduced a well-to-do but mischievous child in the cartoon series, Buster Brown, which appeared in the New York Journal each Sunday until 1920. |
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