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American comic strip character
the con man Joseph "Yellow Kid" Weil

The Yellow Kid (Mickey Dugan Outcault's use of word balloons in The Yellow Kid influenced the basic appearance and use of balloons in subsequent newspaper comic strips and comic books. The Yellow Kid is also famous for its connection to the coining of the term "yellow journalism".

The Yellow Kid was a bald, snaggle toothed, barefoot boy who wore an oversized yellow nightshirt and hung around in a slum alley typical of certain areas of squalor that existed in late 19th century New York City. Hogan's Alley was filled with equally odd characters, mostly other children. With a goofy grin, the Kid habitually spoke in a ragged, peculiar slang, which was printed on his shirt, a device meant to lampoon advertising billboards. The Yellow Kid's head was drawn wholly shaved, as if recently having been ridden of lice, a common sight among children in New York's tenement ghettos at the time. His nightshirt, a hand me down from an older sister, was white or pale blue in the first color strips.

The two newspapers that ran the Yellow Kid, Pulitzer's World and Hearst's Journal, quickly became known as the yellow kid papers. This was contracted to the yellow papers and the term yellow kid journalism was at last shortened to yellow journalism, describing the two newspapers' editorial practices of taking (sometimes even fictionalized) sensationalism and profit as priorities in journalism. With the Yellow Kid's merchandising success as an advertising icon, the strip came to represent the crass commercial world it had originally lampooned.

Entertainment entrepreneur Gus Hill staged vaudeville plays based on the comic strip. His version of McFadden's Flats was made into films in 1927 and 1935. The Yellow Kid made an appearance in the Marvel Universe in the Joss Whedon written Runaways story (volume 2, issue 27). In this take on the character, he exhibits superhuman powers. In the Ziggy of 16 February 1990, Ziggy points to a smiling old man seated next to him on a park bench and says, "No kidding You were The Yellow Kid!" Writer Chris Yambar and editorial cartoonist Randy Bish attempted to revive the series in 2020 as a comic book for the character's 125th anniversary, in which The Yellow Kid is pulled to the modern day by a Magician, however only one issue was published before Yambar's death in March of 2021.

The Yellow Kid Awards are Italian comics awards presented by the International Cartoonists Exhibition and distributed at the annual Italian comic book and gaming convention Lucca Comics & Games.