The origins of the newspaper comic strip itself can be directly traced to William Randolph Hearst and his fondness for this original American art form. In 1902 Cupples and Leon was founded, from this point they would grow to be the biggest comic book publisher in the first three decades of the 20th century. The earliestĬomic publishers were the newspapers that published the original "funnies" The New York Journal and The Herald were two of these early publishers. The Katzenjammer Kids and Buster Brown were a few of the earliest. Who would plagiarize the strip for the Katzenjammer Kids.Ĭomics in America started as reprints of the Sunday "funnies".
This strip had a direct influence on Rudolph Dirks The comics as we known them today date to the 1860s and some of the first popular cartoon characters were kids-primarily boys.Ĭartoons date to Wilhelm Busch's "Max und Moritz" which was introduced in German The first carttons date from the 18th century and were political in nature. The cartoon in has an interesting history. Curiously Mary Jane gave her name to the strap shoes, although both Buster and Mary Jane wore them. Buster gave his name to his trade-mark bangs, collar, and suit.
Buster's girl friend was Mary Jane which became the American term for strap shoes even though Buster also wore them. Buster Brown shoes was the jost enduring. Because of his charateristic clothing, his include a range of clothing items. He was also used to market a wide range of clothing. Buster was also made into the subject of popular films. He was normally the well dressed younger boy with friends that were rougher and not as well dressed. His antics while sometimes naughty were never meam-spirited and always ended with a little motal homily to have a moral influence on the youthful readers of the Sundau comics. He was often accompanied by his sister, Mary Jane, as well as his faithful bulldog-Tige. Buster was a charmingly mischievous boy, always carefully dressed and with nangs and long blond hair. He was also the subject of popular films. Outcault who had earlier created the Yellow Kid. He was an emensly popular cartoon chracter created by R.F. This illustrator has dressed him in a fancy Little Lord Fauntleroy suit.Īlthough now known mostly as a coroprate symbol for a shoe company, Buster Brown was the best known boy character in 20th-Century America. Boys clothing: American literary characters: Buster BrownĬostumes of American Literary Characters: Buster Brownįigure 1.-Buster Brown usually wore a yellow or red Buster Brown tunic suit.
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