![]() Henry draws inspiration from everyday life for his mythical Snug Harbor, where kids "still collect bugs, fly kites and eat ice cream cones upside down.” He still lives in New England with his wife, his cat and “his mistress, the sea.” It is the creation of Will Henry, who launched his cartooning career while a student at the University of Connecticut. But Outcault also is credited with inventing the speech balloon, which has been a staple in comics ever since – including the News Sentinel’s newest. The Kid’s pithy observations in Irish dialect were often written across his colorful shirt. The description came into general use as Pulitzer and Hearst pushed the nation into the Spanish American War, and the popular “The Yellow Kid” became the inevitable icon of the yellow journals. A Times editorial that year referred to the World and Journal as “our esteemed friends of the yellow variety” and “our yellow contemporaries.” This was the era of lurid sensationalism, and some point to "The Yellow Kid" as the origin of the phrase “yellow journalism.”Īctually, the term was coined in 1897 by The New York Times, which had recently been purchased by former Knoxvillian Adolph Ochs. More: News Sentinel cartoonist Charlie Daniel celebrated for 58 years of work ![]() The strips were richly detailed parodies of life in the slums, featuring scenes that were often violent, sometimes sentimental, and occasionally downright racist. ![]() Not to be denied, Pulitzer hired artist George Luks to keep the strip going in the World, too - copyrights being more malleable in those days. The ragamuffin in a bright yellow night shirt was such a hit that Pulitzer’s rival, William Randolph Hearst, paid Outcault to jump to the New York Journal a year later.Įarlier column: Billy Graham, cartoonist Charlie Daniel connected as Tar Heels in Neyland Stadium tunnel Outcault, a former illustrator for Edison Laboratories, created the comic, which started in Joseph Pulitzer’s newspaper in 1895. View Gallery: Charlie Daniel cartoons - April 2018 ![]()
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