Seminar paper from the year 2012 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 2.7, University of Osnabruck (Anglistik), course: "Hully Gee" Understanding the "Yellow Kid" Newspaper Comics, language: English, abstract: "Though many of Pekar's short pieces look very much like gag comic strips, they usually end on a reflective or ambiguous note." (Witek 133). This quotation is an apposite remark on Harvey Pekar's oeuvre as well as it describes Richard Felton Outcault's comic series The Yellow Kid. His detailed pictures do not only offer the obvious facts, but...