The prototype of modern day comic strips "The Yellow Kid" by R.F. Outcault, made its appearance in The New York World. There was one major innovation - the dialogue was printed on the yellow shirt of the kid inside the frame instead of being a caption on the outside.
1907
The San Francisco Chronicle printed the 1st daily comic strip, H.C. (Bud) Fisher's "Mr. Mutt," later called "Mutt and Jeff."
1917
Marcel Duchamp
Fountain
1917 (Original Lost)
Readymade: Porcelain Urinal
Height: 60 cm
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Note: Comic Strip Info via
The People's Almanac
by David Wallechinsky & Iriving Wallace
pgs. 206 - 207 & 213
Published 1975
Doubleday & Company, Inc.