(The young Keaton was thrown around the stage by his father while his mother played the saxophone.)īuster Brown quickly acquired a national following, and in 1904 Outcault went to the Saint Louis World’s Fair to market his hot new strip. Outcault most likely named him after arguably the greatest acrobatic comedian ever, Buster Keaton, who even as a boy was a big star on the vaudeville circuit. Buster pulled pranks, got into fights, and was regularly whaled to within an inch of his life by his mom, just like any boy of his day. Imagine Calvin & Hobbes, only with Hobbes prone to biting and Calvin dressed in a Little Lord Fauntleroy getup that was as liable to get him beat up a century ago as it would be now. Instead of terrorizing the mean streets of a New York City slum, as the Kid did, Buster and Tige raised hell on Park Avenue.
Outcault’s follow-up to his breakthrough strip, Hogan’s Alley, starring the Yellow Kid. Making its first appearance in 1902, Buster Brown was Richard F. Scholl’s should be just the ticket.Īnd second, the dog’s name was Tige, as in “tiger.” Doesn’t anybody remember their turn-of-the-20th-century comic strips anymore? Time for a little review. Seeing as how you’re old enough to remember Captain Video, a pair of Dr. The Brown Shoe Company is still one of the largest shoe concerns in the world, with annual sales of $2.5 billion, and I’m sure they’d be happy to sell you something by one of their other fine brands. Johnįirst of all, Buster Brown shoes never went away – you just stopped fitting into them. I think Buster Brown was advertised on The Howdy Doody Show and Paul Parrot was advertised on Captain Video and his Video Rangers, but I can’t be absolutely sure of these recollections. 1949) it was considered the essence of coolness if you could show everybody that you had Buster Brown or Paul Parrot shoes. Like Brer Rabbit, and Huckleberry Finn, it's gone with the wind, and the likes of it can never return again.Dear Straight Dope: Whatever happened to Buster Brown shoes? You know, with the label inside showing Buster and his dog, Tide? For that matter, whatever happened to Paul Parrot shoes? When I was in the first grade (ca. The social Commentary of Pore Lil Mose was timely, and, although, the attitude it conveyed was dignified and kindly, it was of the era, and could not exist, today. Outcault was an excellent draftsman, his artwork was superior to all the other comic artists of the day, with, perhaps, the sole exception of the great Winsor McCay. The strip was beautifully drawn, and the characters were spot on. Each weekly panel took the form of letters written by Mose to his Mammy, back home in Cottonville Ga. It featured America’s first black comic hero, Pore Lil Mose, a seven year old black boy, living in New York City with: a cat, a monkey, a dog, and a bear named, Billy. No longer limited to the New York area, as the Yellow Kid had been, Buster’s fame was international.Ī fter the Yellow Kid, Outcault created and drew a panel comic strip called “Pore Lil Mose” for the next two years. Outcault, once again, following the Yellow Kid, and even more successful. W ho knew that Buster Brown was once a hugely popular comic strip, the worlds first comic mega hit! It was the work of R. "Froggy the Gremlin", played by a vinyl squeeze toy, appeared in a blast of talcum powder smoke each week, and wiggled, atop a grandfather’s clock, threatening to “plunk his magic twanger” at "Squeaky" the mouse, who was actually a live hamster, held captive, from the neck down, in a human body suit, and "Midnight", a really creepy dead black cat, who was more representative of taxidermy than puppetry. It featured a fat jovial host, "Smilin’ Ed McConnell" who was replaced, after he died by "Andy (less than) Divine". Named after its sponsor, the show had nothing to do with Buster Brown, other than the fact that it was paid for by his shoes.
WHITE BUSTER BROWN SHOES TV
A part from living in the shoes of a million children, there was an awful TV show, a leftover from radio, called "Buster Brown’s Gang".
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