The Yellow Kid
The Yellow Kid
The Yellow Kid was the lead character in Richard F. Outcault's 1890s comic strip Hogan's Alley, one of the first Sunday supplement comic strips in an American newspaper The Yellow Kid was a bald, snaggle-toothed child with a goofy grin in a yellow nightshirt who hung around in a ghetto alley filled with equally odd characters, mostly other children. Instead of speaking, the kid wore his words on his shirt in a satire of advertising billboards. His bald head suggested that it had been recently shaved to get rid of lice, as was common in ghettoes at the time.
Public Domain
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