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Buster Brown — The Sun (New York), May 7, 1911
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Buster Brown — The Sun (New York), May 7, 1911

· May 7, 1911

The image is a full broadsheet sports page from The Sun (New York), and the comic strip itself is not legibly reproducible at this resolution — panels, characters, and dialogue are too compressed to describe with confidence. What the page does confirm is the cultural context: by 1911, Sunday newspaper supplements had already established the visual grammar comics still use — sequential panels, speech balloons, recurring child protagonists — with Richard Outcault's Buster Brown (launched 1902) among the most widely syndicated. Outcault's earlier Yellow Kid had proved a strip character could anchor a newspaper's identity. These pages are the direct ancestors of the comic book format that would consolidate in the 1930s.

About this artifact

Date
May 7, 1911
Rights
Public domain — free to view, share, and reuse.
Restoration
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