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TiggersAreGreat Since: Mar, 2011
#1: Nov 17th 2012 at 8:21:54 AM

This here is a Comic Strip that I can guarantee you have never read. I say this, because The Yellow Kid ran from 1895 to 1898, and I am sure that anyone who was alive in that time is either very old or very dead!

I bet the title would have people sitting there and wondering if it insults people from Asia. You be the judge!

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Robbery Since: Jul, 2012
#2: Nov 17th 2012 at 10:31:43 AM

The strip was actually originally called Hogan's Alley, but was commonly known as The Yellow Kid in reference to it's lead character (whose given name was Mickey Dugan), whose smock was most often colored yellow (which was first done as a printers error; Richard Outcault, the cartoonist, wanted it to be white, as it was supposed to be a cast-off nightshirt). It doesn't really have anything to do with Asians.

Richard Outcault, the strip's creator, also created Buster Brown, and is credited with establishing the conventions of the modern comic strip.

edited 17th Nov '12 10:34:36 AM by Robbery

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