The Yellow Kid and Buster Brown

In 1902, Richard Felton Outcault created the enduring character, Buster Brown. When the cartoonist brought Buster Brown to the New York American in 1906, his previous employer the New York Herald sued and won the rights to retain the name. Buster Brown’s name does not appear in this drawing, however the artist used his first recurring character, the Yellow Kid, as a foil to replay the bitterness of his earlier experience in which the World kept publishing the Yellow Kid after Outcault changed newspapers.