The Yellow Kid

"The Yellow Kid" is a pioneering comic strip created by Richard F. Outcault in the late 1800s. It features a humorous character named Kid, a ragged boy with a yellow nightshirt, who resides in the slum districts of New York City. The strip is significant for popularizing the use of speech balloons and serialized storytelling in comics. It also played a role in the rise of newspaper comic sections and has been associated with the term "yellow journalism," referring to sensationalist reporting. Overall, it helped establish many conventions of modern comic strips and comic culture.