That type of thing definitely brought the rubes 'a running. Sometimes Buster Brown brought along his doge Tige and an entire cast for shows. They hired short people (at the time, the term was "midgets") to impersonate Buster Brown at stores and theaters. The Brown Shoe Company took an aggressive marketing approach for their new Buster Brown line. Of all the licenses Outcault sold, the one to the Brown Shoe company proved the most lucrative. Louis" was a rousing success and amid the greed and merriment Richard Outcault, Buster Brown hawker, met up with George Warren Brown, Brown Shoe maker. The fair, which had its own theme song in "Meet Me in St. Louis for the World's Fair, intent on marketing the new character for ads, posters, and any other product he could find. ![]() Outcault had success with this new character and in 1904 went out to St. Think: The Yellow Kid is to the Three Stooges what Buster Brown is to The Cosby Show.Īs you can see, Buster was quite a different fellow from the notorious Yellow Kid. Outcault finally gave in and decided to create a new kid hero, an upscale boy with a milder streak of mischief. Only instead of t-shirts, The Yellow Kid turned up hawking such adult products as beer and alcohol! The Yellow Kid, like subsequent blond brats Dennis the Menace and Bart Simpson, had become a great marketing item. Some wordsmiths insist that the term "yellow journalism" came from "the yellow papers," the newspapers sleazy enough to carry the appalling antics of The Yellow Kid. postage stamp.īut back around the turn of the century, The Yellow Kid had run afoul of bluenoses, and that was interfering with Outcault earning his green. The lead character was a kind of Bart Simpson brat known as The Yellow Kid.Īs you can see, the nasty brat was enough of a legend to eventually become immortalized on a U.S. Why? Because the successful OLD comic strip had come under fire for being too nasty. The hero would be a sort of sissified kid named Buster Brown. ![]() (That's Outcault at the top of this page). Outcault was launching a new comic strip in New York. Meanwhile, in 1902, a fellow named Richard F. That's about as dull and plain as a brown shoe gets. Their big product was Brown Shoes, and in 1893 that became the company name. In 1878, George Warren Brown and Alvin Bryan started the Bryan, Brown and Company manufacturing plant in St. Here's more than you'll ever want to know about the origin of Buster Brown shoes and the creation of the Buster Brown comic strip. ![]() OUTCAULT and BUSTER BROWN and KIM DEITCH REMEMBERING
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |