Charles M. Schulz, nicknamed Sparky, detested the name the comics syndicate gave his strip, Peanuts. It was originally known ...

He also creates his own comic book characters, including Mr. Beat ... publishers’ newspapers spawned the term “yellow journalism.” The phrase came to describe a type of journalism that ...

“Yellow journalism” got its name from the Yellow Kid, a popular cartoon character drawn by Richard F. Outcault whose strip became the subject of a bidding war between Hearst and ...

Sensationalist journalism, like that practiced at the turn of the century by William Randolph Hearst, is often referred to as "yellow journalism," due to the lemon-colored cartoon strips that made ...