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Show Famous Makers of "Comics" The remote ancestry of the American Ameri-can serial comic would Include the figures fig-ures of "The Rake's Progress" and "Marriage a la Mode" of Hogarth, the work of Rowlandson and Cruickshank and the "Robert Macaire" of Daumier and Philipon. The indigenous product first found expression in the back pages of the American magazines of the later half of the Nineteenth century. cen-tury. Examples of this early work were Palmer Cox's "The Brownies" and the sketches of A. B. Frost. It was in the '90s that the comic serial found its way Into the newspapers. "The Yellow Kid," a creation of that decade, contributed to the coinage of the term "yellow journalism." "The Yellow Kid" is generally credited to R F. Outcault, who was the originator of "Buster Browd." Frederick Burr Opper, E. M. Hawarth, T. E. Powers, Gene Carr, creator of "Lady Bountiful," Bounti-ful," and Carl Schultz, creator of "Foxy Grandpa," were other outstanding outstand-ing comic artists of the period. |