"The Yellow Kid" is a comic strip created by Richard F. Outcault in 1895. It features a character named Mickey Dugan, a young boy who wears a yellow nightshirt. The strip is notable for its use of speech balloons and its commentary on urban life in New York City during the late 19th century. The comic became immensely popular and is often credited with helping to establish the modern comic strip format. It was published in Joseph Pulitzer's newspaper, the New York World, and later in William Randolph Hearst's New York Journal, contributing to the rise of yellow journalism.