The late 1800s and early 1900s saw the rise of the comic strip, a panel of drawings that form a narrative. England's W. F. Thomas created one of the first regularly featured characters, Ally Sloper, who appeared from 1884 to 1920. In the United States Richard F. Outcault (1863-1928) created "Hogan's Alley" (later renamed "The Yellow Kid") in 1895, a popular strip starring Mickey Dugan, a kind of aged baby attired in a trademark yellow sack bearing printed comments. Originally published in the New York World , it also appeared in the New York Journal and spurred a tug-of-war between the two newspapers, giving rise to the term yellow journalism. In 1897, Rudolph Dirks's (1877-1968) " Katzenjammer Kids," based on an earlier cartoon called "Max und Moritz" by Wilhelm Busch (1832-1908), appeared in the New York Journal. The year 1907 brought readers the first successful daily comic...