1841 Punch Magazine, a magazine that featured satirical articles and cartoons makes it"s debut. The magazine quickly gains a reputation as "a defender of the oppressed and a radical scorge of all authority." with it"s viciousl ridicule politicians and business men who exploited poor. Punch Magazine is obviously a forerunner to some of todays humor magazines like Mad Magazine, National Lampoon, & Spy.

1876 Joseph Keppler, a cartoonist, establishes Puck Magazine. A humor mad which features both text articles and cartoons much in the manner of Punch Magazine but with a more consevative stance. Puck starts out as a German language weekly.

1877 An English language verion of Puck Magazine begins circulation. The magazine would lose money in it"s first year, being subsidized by the successful German, version however by the 1880"s circulation would increase to 80,000 copies a week. The magazine would feature well known artists of the day such as Fredrick Burr Opper (who would later go on to create Happy Hooligan), James Wales, Livingston Hopkins, Eugene Zimmerman, & Bernard Gillam.

1894 The First Color newspaper page is printed in The New Yovk Recorder. One er The New York World, headed by Joseph Pulitzer, publishes it"s first color page.

1895 Richard Felton Outcault's The Yellow Kid makes his debut in Pulitzer's New York World newspaper.

1896 "The Yellow Kid" begins publication as a weekly Newspaper feature.

1897 Rudolph Dirk's "The Katzenjammer Kids" debut as part of the American Humorist.

1897 Hearst"s Examiner establishes it"s Sunday comics supplement, The American Humorist featuring "The Yellow Kid".

1897 Richard Felton Outcault moves "The Yellow Kid" from Pulitzer"s New York World to William Randolph Hearst"s San Franscisco Examiner.