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Historical background

Yellow Kid is a character created by cartoonist Richard Felton Outcault and together with "Little Bears" is indeed the oldest comic strip in the history of the publishing business. In 1895, publisher William Randolph Heart purchased the New York Journal and convinced Richard Felton Outcault to work for him. At that time Outcault, a pioneer of comic strip drawing, used to draw satiric strips featuring a 6 to 7 year old bald-headed yellow-dressed boy in the role of either the hero or the observer of stories. On Yellow Kid’s clothes readers could read the authors’ cutting remarks and sarcastic comments. 

The term "Yellow Kid" was coined on 5 January 1896, when the boy was first dressed in yellow and started to play a more important role (he had thus far been given no name).
 

The new Yellow Kid Version

In today’s version, the character has underwent a number of changes redefining its narrative potentials. Yellow Kid is a kind of bard, a storyteller with a daunting narrative task: telling fictional characters the amazing tales of real-life humans.

In full-moon nights, summoned by creatures populating our collective imagination, Yellow Kid pops in from the wings of a stage, in the context of a metalanguage game or rather a Chinese puzzle in which real life and imagination are swapped, to tell – in his own guise – the off-the-wall adventures of the everyday lives of humans. His screaming audience includes such fantasy archetypes as Hercules, Robin Hood, Tinkerbell, Pinocchio, Count Dracula and many others, who listen to his stories with interest and even personal involvement and are often introduced by Yellow Kid himself into the stories and interact with characters in the most unthinkable ways.

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