What was the first newspaper to introduce colored comics?What year?who owned the newspaper?

When I first saw this subject line I was all ready to answer a trivia question about "Color Me Badd" LOL

I believe the first comic strip in color was "The Yellow Kid" and it debuted in New York World (Joseph Pulitzer) in 1895. It is thought that it is also the root of the term "Yellow journalism"

In February 1896, Pulitzer’s New York World published the first comic panel in color ­"Down Hogan’s Alley" by Richard Outcault.

Good answer Georgia.

Similar infos here: http://www.smplanet.com/imperialism/remember.html

"When ( Joseph) Pulitzer chose to experiment with a color supplement to his national newspaper, the Sunday World, in 1894, he included Outcault's first "Yellow Kid" cartoons. On May 5, 1895, the first color comics section made its debut in that paper with a large, single panel cartoon by Outcault on the front page entitled "Hogan's Alley". It was a depiction of a fictitious incident in a city slum, and therefore spoke immediately to the paper's growing following of primarily Democratic immigrants. Its text was simple, yet it was drawn in a naturalistic style true to the intellectual sensibilities of the day as seen in Jacob Riis' photos and the writings of Stephen Crane and William Dean Howells. And it featured "Mickey Dugan" aka "The Yellow Kid", a bald, big-earred waif in a yellow gown decorated with messages in street jargon who always looked directly at the reader - a savvy graphic stroke on the cartoonist's part. "The Yellow Kid" served as a visual focal point in a frenzied scene that burlesqued the social and political concerns of the uppercrust and offered humor and commentary for children and adults alike. Most importantly, he was memorable, and his popularity assured the continuance of the color comics section, which has since become an American entertainment institution on a par with baseball and the movies." - http://www.illustration-
house.com/bios/outcault_bio.html

"On February 16, 1896, Richard Felton Outcault's Yellow Kid appeared for the first time in color in New York's Sunday World."

The first color comic strip was Richard
Outcault's Hogan's Alley, first published on May 5, 1895
- COMIC Writers Workshop

Take your pick. I like the May 5, 1895.

[This message was edited by Doriangreyed on 01-08-04 at 11:31 AM.]