Buster Brown in girl's clothes and today's mystery photo
Set the Wayback machine machine for 1903, Sherman. Let's see what horrendous deviltry Buster Brown is up to today. Richard F Outcalt created the comics page HOGAN'S ALLEY in 1895 for the newspaper WORLD. It may or may not have been the first American comic strip, depending on definition; I'm content to accept it as a very early one and its star, the Yellow Kid, as a very early comics character. (I think the Yellow Kid deserves a close look, soon, as well. His strip was a good example of humor and satire making a strong statement together.) Anywhat, Outcalt moved on to create Buster Brown.
The funniest thing about the strip, to me at least, is the dog. Tige has that cosmic awareness where he can look out at the reader and say, "This oughtta be good!" or "Look out Ma! You'll break the hairbrush!" Buster was so insincere with that "Resolved!" at the end of each page. He was forced to do it and it obviously sank into his conscience as deeply as Bart's blackboard message on THE SIMPSONS.
This young fellow obviously worked for EC Comics, but he also turned out some fine art for Warren, Marvel and DC. He went on to be an editor who helped create many characters and books which are still favorites today.