HOGAN. The grandaddy of all comic strip canids, as he was in the very first comic strip: 'The Yellow Kid' [1894-8] by Richard Outcault. He is at the same time, a collie, an alley dog + a companion to the Kid himself, Mickey Dugan

Dugan is a street waif living near the slummy McFadden's Flats. He wears an extra-large yellow nightshirt with his peculiar dialogue written all over the front of it

A legal loophole allowed George Luks to rip-off Outcault's characters between 1896-8. For this, he became the first branded a Yellow journalist



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