Buster Brown — The Sun (New York), June 22, 1919

This Sunday newspaper page from The Sun (New York) carries the comic strip Buster Brown, R. F. Outcault's sequel to his own Yellow Kid — the strip widely credited with establishing the recurring-character Sunday page as a commercial form. Buster, the well-dressed boy-about-town, appears here alongside his bull terrier Tige in the characteristic large-format Sunday layout: broad panels, clean ink outlines, and speech balloons integrated into the action. Outcault had pioneered these conventions at The New York World from 1895 onward. Sunday pages like this one — printed in color sections, syndicated nationally, later reprinted as pamphlets — are the direct structural ancestors of the comic book format that would consolidate into a distinct medium by the 1930s.