Crumbling Paper: Buster Brown Smokes a Cigar (strip #1)

Here’s an example I scanned of Buster Brown from 1910 by R.F. Outcault (who also created the Yellow Kid). Just say NO to cigars!

Click the image to view the full strip.

Click here to read more examples of Buster Brown at Barnacle Press.

See the last Buster Brown strip at the Stripper’s Guide.

Click here to read about Richard F. Outcault at lambiek.net.

See a Buster Brown original (with the Yellow Kid) at the Library of Congress website.

Read more about R.F. Outcault at Ohio State University’s website.

See examples of Outcault’s Yellow Kid at Ohio State University’s website.

Click here to read more about Buster Brown at Toonopedia.

Hear a radio program on the history of Buster Brown at npr.org.

Visit the website of the R.F. Outcault Society.

Read the Wikipedia entry on Buster Brown.

Read the Wikipedia entry on R.F. Outcault..

Read the Wikipedia entry on The Yellow Kid.

See the copyright application for the Yellow Kid at the Library of Congress website.

Read Outcault’s obituary from a 1928 Time Magazine.

Buster Brown Shoes Ad

Buster Brown the character was already long dead in the 1950’s… but he was quite a character before they sucked his soul and made him and his dog Tige as innocuous as Hello Kitty. We’ll be focusing on Buster both in his original form as a mischievous imp on the comics page, and also take a look at his bizarre television bedfellows here for the next couple weeks.

“He’s really just a picture… but it’s fun 2 play pretend!”