The Yellow Kid's popularity soon faded, and the last strip appeared on January 23, 1898. Luks' version had ended the month before. The character made rare appearances thereafter. Hearst had launched the "New York Evening Journal" and made Outcault the editor of the daily comics page. He continued to contribute cartoons to it, as well as to the "World", where he had "Casey’s Corner" published, a strip about African-American characters that debuted on February 13, 1898, and moved to the "Evening Journal" on April 8, 1898. It was the first newspaper strip to feature continuity.