![]() The comics featured the characters on the cover, but contained different adventure features, not necessarily related to Buster Brown.įinally, Buster Brown and his dog were revived with an updated, more contemporary look for a brief advertising campaign in the 1980's and 1990's by the Brown Shoe Company. In the 1940s and '50s The Brown Shoe Company made a foray into the comic book publishing industry with Buster Brown Comics, on which a retailer could rubber-stamp their address. 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. Doesn’t anybody remember their turn-of-the-20th-century comic strips anymore Time for a little review. Outcault and the comic strip was published in the New York Herald.īuster Brown's association with shoes began with John Bush, a sales executive with the Brown Shoe Company he persuaded his company to purchase rights to the Buster Brown name, and the brand was introduced to the public at the 1904 World's Fair. And second, the dog’s name was Tige, as in tiger. He even had a style of boys clothing named for him. He became associated with the Brown Shoe Co. He lives in here too"!īuster Brown started out in the comic strip world in 1902. In the US they developed along different lines with a heavier, taller dog being the end result.Do you remember the commercials for "Buster Brown Shoes"? It went. ![]() Buster Brown was a comic strip character created in 1902 by Richard Felton Outcault. Although now known mostly as a coroprate symbol for a shoe company, Buster Brown was the best known boy character in 20th-Century America. Postcard image from about 1912 When Buster Brown and his dog Tige, a Boston Terrier, paid a special visit to Bauge & Alm Shoe Store at 204 Main, the whole town turned out to watch. This illustrator has dressed him in a fancy Little Lord Fauntleroy suit. Known for its loyalty and reliability with small children the Staffordshire Bull Terrier was a very well loved family pet for many families.īull and Terrier breeds were believed to have arrived in North America sometime in the mid-1880's. Figure 1.-Buster Brown usually wore a yellow or red Buster Brown tunic suit. The other thing that was popular, was the breed of dog. This is a photo of Clifford (aged 4) Murray - my Grandpa - (aged 3) and John (8 months) Carew. I have this photo of my Grandpa Carew and his brothers and Grandpa is wearing this very same style of suit. Louis Worlds Fair of 1904 (the same fair that. It seemed the look that Buster Brown had was all the rage for small boys at that time. His bulldog became Tige, Buster Browns dog who lived in a shoe with him. ![]() For example, a hosiery manufacturer used the image of Buster Browns dog Tige unsuccessfully trying to rip his socks in order to demonstrate the strength of its product. Do you recognise the breed? How many dogs do you know with that "smile"? Its a Staffordshire Bull Terrier. The strip and characters were very popular and Outcault eventually licensed the name for a number of consumer products, most notably Buster Brown shoes. Adopted as the mascot of the Brown Shoe Company in 1904, Buster Brown, along with Mary Jane, and with his dog Tige, became well known to the American public in the early-20th century. This image of the small, blonde boy and his faithful dog was very popular around 1904. In 1904, Outcault took Buster to the World’s Fair and licensed him to 200 different companies. Buster Brown is a comic-strip character created in 1902 by Richard F. Remember those shoes? Did you know that there was a comic strip of the same name at the beginning of the last century? ![]()
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