Dedicated
to Mr. Outeault and The Sunday World
I.
No
doubt yer reads der Sunday World, an’ knows about de crowd,
Wot’s
foun’ in Hogan’s Alley where no quiet ain’t allowed;
We’re
gittin’ famous don’t yer see, an’ er’rybody knows
De
tings we say from day tur day is jus’ de ting dat goes.
De
chap wot draws our picthers, but say, ain’t he a peach?
Dey
ain’t no odder artis’ bloke kin touch him on de beach;
An’
say, de World’s a daisy sheet, an’ does us right up brown,
An’
yer kin bet we leads de set around dis little town.
Refrain
Down in Hogan’s Alley,
Makin’ love ter Sally;
Spoonin’
on de doorsteps w’en ev’nin’ shadders fall;
Marchin’ wid de muckers,
Er eggin’ off de suckers,
An’
reg’lar cinch place (spoken) “Ain’t it, kids?” De fairest spot of all.
II.
Dey’s
Micky Dugan, Chauncy Flynn, an’ Vincent Ferrell, wid
De
Hogans an’ de Brogans, an’ de little Dugan kid;
De
State merlishy an’ de cops, we put dem in de shade,
Fer
me makes a livink picther w’en we gits out on parade.
We’se
got a ball team an’ a band, we’se got a cinch quartet;
A
dozen atheletic clubs dat ain’t b’en outclassed yet;
Dey’s
nuttin’ goin’ anyw’eres, in dis or any State
But
wot us Hogan Alley Kids has got it uo ter date.
Refrain
Down in Hogan’s Alley,
Where we likes ter rally;
Loafin’
on de doorsteps w’en ev’nin’ shadders fall;
Dreamin’ of tommorer,
A-never knowin’ sorrer,
An’
reg’lar cinch place (spoken) “Ain’t it, kids?” De fairest spot of all.
June
28, 1896
Pub.
in the N.Y. Sunday World,
July
26, 1896
The Yellow
Kid was the name of a lead American comic strip character that
ran from 1895 to 1898 in Joseph Pulitzer's New York World, and later William
Randolph Hearst's New York Journal. Created and drawn by Richard F. Outcault in the comic
strip Hogan's Alley (and later
under other names as well), it was one of the first Sunday supplement comic
strips in an American newspaper, although its graphical layout had already been
thoroughly established in political and other,
purely-for-entertainment cartoons. Outcault's use of word balloons in
the Yellow Kid influenced the basic appearance and use of balloons in
subsequent newspaper comic strips and comic books.
Although a
cartoon, Outcault's work aimed its humor and social commentary at Pulitzer's
adult readership. The strip has been described as "... a
turn-of-the-century theater of the city, in which class and racial tensions of
the new urban, consumerist environment were acted out by a mischievous group of New
York City kids from the wrong side of the tracks."
The Yellow
Kid is also famous for its connection to the coining of the term yellow
journalism.
Mickey
Dugan, better known as The Yellow Kid, was a bald, snaggle-toothed boy who
wore an oversized yellow nightshirt and hung around in a slum alley
typical of certain areas of squalor that existed in late 19th-century New York
City. Hogan's Alley was filled with equally odd characters, mostly other
children. With a goofy grin, the Kid habitually spoke in a ragged, peculiar slang,
which was printed on his shirt, a device meant to lampoon advertising billboards
The Yellow
Kid's head was drawn wholly shaved as if having been recently ridden of lice, a common sight
among children in New York's tenement ghettos at the time. His nightshirt,
a hand-me-down from an older sister, was white or pale blue in the first color
strips.
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~ma04/wood/ykid/imagehtml/yk_eviction.htm
Richard Felton Outcault (January 14, 1863
– September 25, 1928) was an American cartoonist. He was the creator of the
series The Yellow Kid and Buster Brown, and he is considered the
inventor of the modern comic strip.
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