Comic Strip Wars

A Brief History of The Yellow Kid

There was a time when comics sold newspapers, when having the right comic in your paper could be the difference between success and failure. The Yellow Kid wasn’t the first comic character ever created, but he was the first phenomenon. So much so that in his prime two competing papers ran their own versions of his strip. It was the dawn of a new century, the heart of the newspaper wars, and the beginning of the artistic medium known as comics. Continue reading “Comic Strip Wars”