Charles William Saalburg (1865 – 1947) was an American cartoonist and illustrator who lived in
San Francisco
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, and whose work appeared in the San Francisco ''
Wasp
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'' and ''
Examiner'', the New York ''
World
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'', as well as periodicals in Paris and London. In 1894, he created ''The Ting Ling Kids'' comic strip for the ''
Chicago Inter Ocean'', which is typically considered the earliest regular American newspaper comic strip to be printed in color.
As chief of the ''World''s color department, he is also credited with giving the bright yellow color to
R. F. Outcault's character
The Yellow Kid. Inn 1895, he used the Kid's characteristic oversized shirt to test a new, quick-drying yellow ink.
The Yellow Kid, originally drawn with a blue shirt or in black and white, would give rise to the term "
yellow journalism".
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1865 births
1947 deaths
American comic strip cartoonists
American comics artists
American illustrators
Artists from San Francisco
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