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<DIV>In a message dated 10/17/2003 7:44:03 AM Eastern Daylight Time, eega@supereva.it writes:</DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid"><FONT face=Arial>The general agreement about the Yellow Kid being the first "real"<BR>comic is based on the fact that it was the first to introduce spoken<BR>words within the boundaries of the panel, first with the messages<BR>on his gown or posters, and later with "proper" word balloons, rather<BR>than confining the narration in captions, often rhyming, as it was<BR>with Obadiah or Max und Moritz and other early european stuff.</FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV>
<DIV>while there may be general agreement - it is wrong... there were lots of proper word balloons in cartoons and comic strips prior to the Yellow Kid....</DIV>
<DIV> the Yellow Kid just happens to be the one people remembered when they were writing about comics...</DIV>
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<DIV>steven rowe</DIV></BODY></HTML>