Buster Brown & Tige

R. F. Outcault's Buster Brown ran in the New York Herald beginning in 1902, featuring the mischievous sailor-suited boy, his dog Tige, and his long-suffering mother. This page follows Buster and Tige visiting a bedridden neighbor child while unsupervised — chaos ensues across twelve panels: acrobatics off furniture, a chandelier brought down, pictures smashed, and a gas leak, all rendered in Outcault's clean ink line with expressive silhouette figures. The strip closes, as always, with Buster's formal 'Resolved' moral confession. Outcault had already invented the modern comic strip with The Yellow Kid (1895), establishing the speech balloon and recurring cast. Sunday color pages like this one — collected and sold as newsprint pamphlets — are the direct ancestor of the comic book format.