Buster Brown

Richard Outcault's Buster Brown ran as a full-page Sunday strip in the New York Herald, and this eight-panel page shows Buster's Uncle and his camel Bill on a desert misadventure. The camel refuses water, dances, bucks riders, and generally humiliates everyone — culminating in Buster's trademark closing 'Resolved' moral, here a wry meditation on fair-weather friends. Outcault drew in a loose, energetic line, packing panels with overlapping figures and speech balloons that tumble across the page. He had already invented the modern comic strip with The Yellow Kid (1895), establishing recurring characters, sequential panels, and integrated dialogue. Buster Brown extended that grammar into the full Sunday color page format that would directly seed the comic book anthology by the 1930s.