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Richard Outcault

Richard Felton Outcault (1863 - 1928) was active/lived in New York, Ohio.  Richard Outcault is known for Cartoonist.

Richard Outcault, regarded as the father of the comic strip, was one of the earliest newspaper comic artists, who created two of the fields most important characters. He introduced the Yellow Kid in 1895, and Buster Brown in 1902. He pioneered not only in the developing of the Sunday funnies, but also in the merchandising of comics characters.

Richard Felton Outcault was born in Lancaster, Ohio, on January 14, 1863. Having an early talent toward the arts he enrolled at McMicken University in Cincinnati, majoring in art, and also studied art in Paris. After graduating, he moved to New York City and secured work doing cartoons and illustrations for various newspapers, as well as Judge and Life magazines.

He was later engaged to do technical drawings for Electrical World magazine in New York. Thomas Edison hired him on the basis of his drawing ability. His free-lance work led him to a contract with Pulitzers New York World, where his work began to appear as early as Septem   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 4738 characters.]  Artist bio

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