If you liked The Yellow Kid
12 comics like The Yellow Kid
Picked for the same feel: the genres they share with The Yellow Kid (slice of life, comedy), the same creators, and what readers keep together. Each opens where it is read legally.
Comics like The Yellow Kid
Also by Richard F. Outcault1. Buster Brown
by Richard F. Outcault
- Comedy (shared)
- Slice of Life (shared)
A neatly dressed boy, his talking dog Tige, and a prank every Sunday — followed by a written resolution never to do it again, which never survives the week.
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Historical · Slice of Life2. Ally Sloper
by Charles H. Ross
- Comedy (shared)
- Slice of Life (shared)
A red-nosed London schemer who slopes up the alley when the rent is due. The first comic character to carry his own magazine and to be sold as merchandise — he was on mugs before anybody had thought that through.
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Historical · Comedy3. Frederick Burr Opper: Collected Cartoons
by Frederick Burr Opper
- Comedy (shared)
Single-panel work from the man who drew Happy Hooligan — magazine cartoons, political drawings and book illustration, from the years when the newspaper comic was still being invented around him.
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Historical · Comedy4. Caran d'Ache: Collected Drawings
by Caran d'Ache
- Comedy (shared)
Wordless picture stories from Paris in the 1880s, told in strict panel sequence so the joke lands without a caption. He took his name from the Russian word for pencil, and he is the reason the story without words became a form.
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Slice of Life · Comedy5. Happy Hooligan
by Frederick Burr Opper
- Comedy (shared)
- Slice of Life (shared)
A tramp with a tin can for a hat tries to do somebody a kindness and is arrested for it in the last panel. Every week, for thirty years, the same good intention and the same policeman.
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Historical · Comedy6. Wilhelm Busch: Picture Stories
by Wilhelm Busch
- Comedy (shared)
The rest of Busch — drunks, monks, cats, painters and children, most of them punished. Picture and verse locked together on the page thirty years before anyone thought to call the arrangement a comic.
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Slice of Life · Comedy7. Mutt and Jeff
by Bud Fisher
- Comedy (shared)
- Slice of Life (shared)
A tall schemer and a short optimist, running a small swindle a day and losing on it. It ran daily rather than on Sundays, which almost nothing did in 1907, and every daily strip since has inherited the habit.
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Slice of Life · Comedy8. Toonerville Folks
by Fontaine Fox
- Comedy (shared)
- Slice of Life (shared)
A trolley that meets all the trains, a skipper with a beard, and a suburb of people who know each other far too well. The trolley became famous enough that real towns claimed to be the original.
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Historical · Comedy9. Chōjū-jinbutsu-giga
by Attributed to Toba Sōjō
- Comedy (shared)
Rabbits, frogs and monkeys wrestling, bathing and holding a funeral, brushed onto handscrolls in the twelfth century. Japan often calls it the oldest manga: no words, a running story, read right to left.
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Slice of Life · Comedy10. Krazy Kat
by George Herriman
- Comedy (shared)
- Slice of Life (shared)
- Supernatural
A cat loves a mouse, the mouse throws a brick, and the cat reads the brick as a token of love. Thirty years of the same joke, told in a shifting desert landscape that changes between panels.
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Historical · Comedy11. Rodolphe Töpffer: Picture Stories
by Rodolphe Töpffer
- Adventure
- Comedy (shared)
A Geneva schoolmaster drew absurd little travel stories for his pupils in the 1830s, in panels, with the text underneath carrying the timing. Goethe read them and approved. They are usually called the first comics.
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Slice of Life · Comedy12. Bringing Up Father
by George McManus
- Comedy (shared)
- Slice of Life (shared)
Jiggs came into money and would rather be eating corned beef with his old friends; Maggie intends them to be respectable and throws crockery about it. Drawn in a clean deco line that still looks modern beside the strips printed around it.
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