Buster Brown in the French Capital

R.F. Outcault's Buster Brown ran as a Sunday full-page in the New York Herald beginning in 1902, placing it among the earliest recurring-character comic strips to fully exploit the newspaper page as sequential art. This episode sends Buster, his dog Tige, and a fashionable woman to London for a week; Buster's scheme—nailing a trunk filled with lead to the floor so the porter cannot carry it—unfolds across eight panels using speech balloons, overlapping figures, and punch-cut panel borders that Outcault helped standardize. The strip closes with Buster's printed 'Resolved' moral, his signature device, here ruefully noting that next time he'll nail the trunk to the ceiling. Outcault had already created the Yellow Kid; Buster Brown became the template for child-protagonist strips that shaped the medium for decades.