The Yellow Dugan Kid - Public domain portrait drawing
Summary
Copyright registration drawing shows the cartoon character whom Outcault has identified as "The yellow Dugan kid," better known as the Yellow Kid. It is a full-length drawing of Mickey Dugan in his characteristic yellow nightshirt. Outcault submitted this drawing for copyright shortly before he made the switch from Pulitzer's New York World to Hearst's New York Journal.
Outcault's letter requesting copyright and drawing of character, registered September 9, 1896 with registration number 50565.
Transfer, Copyright Office.
Exhibited: "Comic Art: 120 Years of Panels and Pages" at the Library of Congress, Thomas Jefferson Building, Graphic Arts Gallery, September 12, 2019 - March 21, 2020.
This catalog record contains preliminary or unverified data from a project done in BRS software, ca. 1985.
mm / 860529.
Tags
Date
Location
Source
Copyright info