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the yellow kid cartoons don't make many readers laugh today. What new technique made this comic so popular at the turn of the century?

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The Yellow Kid was successful in its time because it portrayed critically the period in which it lived. His shirts were his means of communication, and ironically reflected the model of communication on the rise at the time: merchandising.

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