GEORGE B. LUKS (1867-1933) THE SUNDAY WORLD. 1897.
18x11 3/4 inches, 45 3/4x 29 3/4 cm.
Condition B-: tape on verso along tears at edges; tears and losses at edges; creases, abrasions and staining in margins and image; pen markings in upper margin; vertical and horizontal folds. Paper.
When Outcault left one New York newspaper for a higher paying offer at the other, a huge legal battle ensued. The wrangling could not produce clear copyright ownership of the character, but awarded The New York World the rights to the title "Hogan's Alley." Quite quickly Pulitzer hired Ashcan artist George Luks to continue the strip. At the Journal, Outcault continued presenting his character but renamed the strip "McFadden Flats." With two of New York's (and America's) biggest newspapers running the same popular cartoon character week after week along with their host of outlandish, sensationalist and often plain untrue stories which they had to produce in order to keep and increase readership, the term "Yellow-Kid Journalism" began being used (later reduced to "Yellow Journalism"). The strip stopped running in 1898. rare