The Yellow Kid Stakes a Claim at Klondyke
DateSeptember 26, 1897
Artist
Richard Felton Outcault
(American cartoonist, 1863–1928)
Illustration Citation"The Yellow Kid Stakes a Claim at Klondyke," in The New York Sunday World, September 26, 1897
MediumCommercial relief process
Dimensionssheet: 21 3/8 × 16 7/16 in. (54.3 × 41.8 cm)
Credit LineF. V. du Pont Acquisition Fund, 1986
Object number1986-58
On View
Not on viewClassificationsPRINT
Label TextOften credited as the inventor of the comic strip, Richard Felton Outcault began work at the New York World in 1894, where he created Down in Hogan's Alley, one of the first series of cartoons with a regular cast of characters. The Yellow Kid debuted in that series when the newspaper's printing staff used a new yellow ink; testing it on one character's shirt. Soon Outcault brought The Yellow Kid to William Randolph Hearst's New York Morning Journal, though legally his Hogan's Alley title had to remain with the New York World and continued production with George Luks as artist.
