Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate
the correct answer to each of the questions.
The modern comic strip started out as ammunition in a newspaper war between giants of
the American press in the late nineteenth century. The first full-color comic strip appeared
January 1894 in the New York World, owned by Joseph Pulitzer. The first regular weekly full-
color comic supplement, similar to today's Sunday funnies, appeared two years later, in William
Randolph Hearst's rival New York paper, the Morning Journal.
Both were immensely popular, and publishers realized that supplementing the news with
comic relief boosted the sale of papers. The Morning Journal started another feature in 1896, the
"Yellow Kid", the first continuous comic character in the United States, whose creator, Richard
Outcault, had been lured away from the World by the ambitious Hearst. The "Yellow Kid" was
in many ways a pioneer. Its comic dialogue was the strictly urban farce that came to characterize
later strips, and it introduced the speech balloon inside the strip, usually placed above the
characters' heads.
The first strip to incorporate all the elements of later comics was Rudolph Dirks's
"Katzenjammer Kids," based on Wilhelm Busch's Max and Moritz, a European satire of the
nineteenth century. The "Kids" strip, first published in 1897, served as the prototype for future
American strips. It contained not only speech balloons, but a continuous cast of characters, and
was divided into small regular panels that did away with the larger panoramic scenes of most
earlier comics.
Newspaper syndication played a major role in spreading the popularity of comic strips
throughout the country. Though weekly colored comics came first, daily black-and-white strips
were not far behind. The first appeared in the Chicago American in 1904. It was followed by
many imitators, and by 1915 black-and-white comic strips had become a staple of daily
newspapers around the country.
Question 1: In what order does the author discuss various comic strips in the passage?
A. In the order in which they were created.
B. From most popular to least popular.
C. According to the newspaper in which they appeared.
D. In alphabetical order by title.