First Cartoon....

The word ‘cartoon’ was originally used by painters during the period of the Italian renaissance. And in fact, it is still used today by artists. What they are referring to, however, is the first sketch in actual size of any work of art which covers a large area, such as a mural, a tapestry, or a stained-glass window. When newspapers and magazines started to use drawings to illustrate news and provide amusement, these drawings also came to be called cartoons. The first comic strips appeared in the early 1900s. Richard Outcault (the artist who created Buster Brown) published this comic strip in 1902. It was so popular that children all over the country wanted to dress in Buster Brown clothes.