Art

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The National Museum of American History is not an art museum. But works of art fill its collections and testify to the vital place of art in everyday American life. The ceramics collections hold hundreds of examples of American and European art glass and pottery. Fashion sketches, illustrations, and prints are part of the costume collections. Donations from ethnic and cultural communities include many homemade religious ornaments, paintings, and figures. The Harry T Peters "America on Stone" collection alone comprises some 1,700 color prints of scenes from the 1800s. The National Quilt Collection is art on fabric. And the tools of artists and artisans are part of the Museum's collections, too, in the form of printing plates, woodblock tools, photographic equipment, and potters' stamps, kilns, and wheels.

Date: 1960s

Camera-ready comic art drawing for Joe Palooka

This pen-and-ink drawing prepared for the Joe Palooka comic strip shows Joe fighting an Arab monarch in a boxing match.
Description (Brief)
This pen-and-ink drawing prepared for the Joe Palooka comic strip shows Joe fighting an Arab monarch in a boxing match. The drawing includes the date "12-9" and is presumed to date from about 1966.
Hammond Edward "Ham" Fisher (around 1900-1955) worked for Pennsylvania and New York newspapers in the 1920s when he also began trying to sell his first Joe Palooka comic drawings. Fisher is remembered for having been expelled from the National Cartoonists Society in 1954 after a long-running disagreement with Li'l Abner artist Al Capp.
Joe Palooka (1930-1984) was a big, tough, simpleminded boxer with a good heart. His manager was an Irishman named Knobby Walsh. Ann Howe first appeared as Joe’s fiancée and later married him in 1949. Other characters included Max, the mute 8-year-old, and his peculiar friend Humphrey Pennyworth. In 1934 the comic strip was recreated as a popular film starring Stuart Erwin. The film spawned a number of sequels well into the 1950s.
Location
Currently not on view
date made
ca 1966
graphic artist
Fisher, Ham
author
Dipreta, Tony
publisher
McNaught Syndicate, Inc.
ID Number
GA.22471.02
catalog number
22471.02
accession number
277502

Camera-ready comic art drawing for Kevin the Bold

This pen-and-ink drawing prepared for the Kevin the Bold comic strip shows Kevin and the "Viking Indians" engaging in battle with Captain Spur’s army.Kreigh Collins (1908-1974) began his career as an illustrator for magazines in the 1930s. In 1950, along with writer R. R.
Description (Brief)
This pen-and-ink drawing prepared for the Kevin the Bold comic strip shows Kevin and the "Viking Indians" engaging in battle with Captain Spur’s army.
Kreigh Collins (1908-1974) began his career as an illustrator for magazines in the 1930s. In 1950, along with writer R. R. Winterbotham, Collins debuted his most popular work, the newspaper strip Kevin the Bold.
Kevin the Bold (1950-1968) was a comic strip whose star originally appeared as a supporting character in a strip called Mitzi McCoy, first published in 1948. The original strip focused on the escapades of a 20th-century socialite and heiress. When she met her 15th-century ancestor, Kevin, he became the new star and the strip was renamed for him. Kevin, originally presented as an Irish shepard, eventually becomes something of an errand boy for King Henry VIII. In 1968 Kevin was killed in a sailing accident and the strip’s name and focus changed again, this time to the name Up Anchor, set in contemporary times.
Location
Currently not on view
date made
1966-05-29
graphic artist
Collins, Kreigh
publisher
NEA, Inc.
ID Number
GA.22482
catalog number
22482
accession number
277502

Camera-ready comic art drawing for Bugs Bunny

This pen-and-ink drawing produced for the Bugs Bunny comic strip shows Sylvester, Bugs, and a goat named Cynthia going to the beach to play some music.
Description (Brief)
This pen-and-ink drawing produced for the Bugs Bunny comic strip shows Sylvester, Bugs, and a goat named Cynthia going to the beach to play some music. In order to dissuade a heckler, who put sand in Bugs’s tuba, Cynthia simply butts him with her head.
Ralph Heimdahl (1909-1981) spent the earlier part of his career animating for Walt Disney Studios. His work included early animation for Snow White (1937), Fantasia (1940), and Dumbo (1941). In addition to his work for Disney, Heimdahl also illustrated the Bugs Bunny daily comic strip starting in 1948. He later took over the Sunday strip, which he animated until the 1970s.
Bugs Bunny (1942-1970s), the newspaper strip, started as a spin-off of animated media including the title character. Bugs Bunny first appeared as the villain in the 1938 theatrical short Porky’s Hare Hunt. He was named after its director, Ben “Bugs” Hardaway. The newspaper strip itself, as well as the comic book version, never reached the popularity of the theatrical animations or cartoons and was canceled in the 1970s.
Location
Currently not on view
date made
1966-06-26
graphic artist
Heimdahl, Ralph
publisher
Warner Brothers Pictures, Inc.
Bell-McClure Syndicate
ID Number
GA.22527
catalog number
22527
accession number
277502

Camera-ready comic art drawing for Henry

This pen-and-ink drawing produced for the Henry comic strip shows the title character becoming excited when he thinks a window painting reads free ice cream.
Description (Brief)
This pen-and-ink drawing produced for the Henry comic strip shows the title character becoming excited when he thinks a window painting reads free ice cream. But after telling his friends and bringing them back to enjoy the ice cream, he realizes the painter hadn’t finished painting the sign.
Carl Thomas Anderson (1865-1948) was a carpenter before he was an artist. He received formal art training in Philadelphia and in 1890 was offered a job with The New York World, where he launched a strip for the Sunday comics called Little Filipino and the Chick. William Randolph Hearst then hired Anderson to work for the New York Journal. Anderson transitioned into freelancing and carpentry during the Great Depression. In 1932 Anderson's work on Henry was accepted by the Saturday Evening Post. The strip was an immediate success, and Anderson continued drawing the strip until his death in 1948.
Henry (1932-1995, dailies, 1935-2005, Sundays) had its beginnings as a successful Depression-era comic strip, especially because of its recognizable lead character. Henry's childlike characteristics including his large, bald head, round belly, and stocky limbs were strengthened by his limited script. Henry was seen in a Fleischer Studios' short film, where Henry actually spoke, and in color comic books between 1946 and 1961. Henry is still shown in classic reruns across the country.
Location
Currently not on view
date made
1966-09-25
graphic artist
Anderson, Carl
Liney, John
publisher
King Features Syndicate
ID Number
GA.22371
catalog number
22371
accession number
277502

Camera-ready comic art drawing for Big Ben Bolt

This pen-and-ink drawing produced for the Big Ben Bolt comic strip shows Ben interested in saving the ship’s crew being held hostage by Captain Kessel.John Cullen Murphy (1919-2004) drew sports cartoons in his early career.
Description (Brief)
This pen-and-ink drawing produced for the Big Ben Bolt comic strip shows Ben interested in saving the ship’s crew being held hostage by Captain Kessel.
John Cullen Murphy (1919-2004) drew sports cartoons in his early career. After World War II he freelanced and in 1949 writer Elliot Caplin, from King Features, proposed that they collaborate on a new boxing strip called Big Ben Bolt, which Murphy illustrated until the end of its run in 1978. In the meantime, beginning in 1970, Murphy also began working with Hal Foster on the Prince Valiant strip and took it over completely with Foster’s retirement. He continued the strip, with the help of his son, until his own retirement in early 2004.
Big Ben Bolt (1950-1978) was the protagonist for a comic strip about the title character's boxing and journalism career. Unlike the storyline in Ham Fisher’s Joe Palooka writer Elliot Caplin decided to stray from the boxing character formula, of a simple-minded athlete, and described Ben as a college graduate who only chose boxing because he genuinely enjoyed it. At one point, Ben was sidelined by an injury and began working in journalism. Many of the strip’s storylines featured Ben covering boxing matches instead of physically participating in them.
Location
Currently not on view
date made
1966-03-01
graphic artist
Murphy, John Cullen
publisher
King Features Syndicate
ID Number
GA.22408
catalog number
22408
accession number
277502

Camera-ready comic strip, entitled "Hatlo's They'll Do It Every Time".

"They'll Do It Every Time" was created by Jimmy Hatlo (d. 1963) and distributed by King Features Syndicate between 1929 and 2008. The strip was drawn from 1963-2008 by Bob Dunn (d. 1989) and Al Scaduto (d.
Description
"They'll Do It Every Time" was created by Jimmy Hatlo (d. 1963) and distributed by King Features Syndicate between 1929 and 2008. The strip was drawn from 1963-2008 by Bob Dunn (d. 1989) and Al Scaduto (d. 2007) It was mostly a gag strip, showing the absurdities and realities of everyday life. "The Hatlo Inferno" and "The Hatlo History" were other tandem features of the strip, showing humorous scenes from Hell or history. In this strip, the opening of a boxing gym shows the effects of "Gentleman Jim" Corbett's influence in New York, 1892.
Location
Currently not on view
date made
04/03/1966
graphic artist
Dunn, Bob
Scaduto, Al
author
Thompson, Tommy
ID Number
GA.22613
catalog number
22613
accession number
277502

Camera-ready comic art drawing for Mark Trail

This pen-and-ink drawing produced for the Mark Trail comic strip shows the title character indoors, trying to prepare his camera, while Andy, his St.
Description (Brief)
This pen-and-ink drawing produced for the Mark Trail comic strip shows the title character indoors, trying to prepare his camera, while Andy, his St. Bernard dog, escapes under the fence.
Edward Benton Dodd (1902-1991) was a comic artist with an active enthusiasm for nature and the outdoors. Dodd learned how to write and draw in his home state, Georgia, while working as a camp counselor for Dan Beard, founder of the Boy Scouts. In the 1920s, after his student years, Dodd created the comic Back Home Again, about a hillbilly family from Georgia. The comic ran until 1945. Dodd then launched Mark Trail in 1946 and drew it until 1978.
Mark Trail (1946- ) was an outdoor-themed comic strip starring a wildlife photographer. The title character's job and home life, in Lost Forest National Park, allowed his creator an opportunity to incorporate his own heartfelt appreciation of wildlife and strong environmental messages into the strip. In the 1940s and 1950s Mark Trail was adapted as a radio show and a comic book series.
Location
Currently not on view
date made
1966-04-01
graphic artist
Dodd, Ed
publisher
Hall Syndicate, Inc.
ID Number
GA.22370
catalog number
22370
accession number
277502

Camera-ready comic art drawing for Little Orphan Annie

This pen-and-ink drawing produced for the Little Orphan Annie comic strip shows Annie using baseball expressions to describe her friend Sinya’s ease in getting dates.Harold Lincoln Gray (1894-1968) started working for newspapers in Lafayette, Indiana, when he attended Purdue Univ
Description (Brief)
This pen-and-ink drawing produced for the Little Orphan Annie comic strip shows Annie using baseball expressions to describe her friend Sinya’s ease in getting dates.
Harold Lincoln Gray (1894-1968) started working for newspapers in Lafayette, Indiana, when he attended Purdue University. After serving in World War I he took a job at the Chicago Tribune, where he drew the lettering for Sidney Smith’s strip The Gumps. In 1924 Gray launched Little Orphan Otto, later changed to Little Orphan Annie. Over the years, Gray often prepared artwork for various Sunday strips including Little Orphan Annie and others, such as the topper strip Maw Green.
Little Orphan Annie (1924-1974, 1979-2010) is a rags-to-riches story about a redheaded girl who was adopted by millionaire Daddy Warbucks. The strip was known for its promotion of characteristics such as self-sufficiency and hard work. Gray took advantage of a storyline that involved the recurring separation and reunion of the protagonists. The Little Orphan Annie story found additional success as a radio program, films, and in the Broadway musical Annie, introduced in 1977.
Location
Currently not on view
date made
1966-09-20
original artist
Gray, Harold
publisher
News Syndicate Co., Inc.
ID Number
GA.22335
catalog number
22335
accession number
277502

Camera-ready comic art drawing for Mr. Abernathy

This pen-and-ink drawing produced for the Mr. Abernathy comic strip features Mr. Abernathy's secretary, Flossie, asking for the afternoon off. Mr.
Description (Brief)
This pen-and-ink drawing produced for the Mr. Abernathy comic strip features Mr. Abernathy's secretary, Flossie, asking for the afternoon off. Mr. Abernathy denies her request but when she reveals she was hoping to shop for a new bathing suit, Abernathy quickly changes his mind and escorts her on her shopping trip.
Alexander Ralston “Bud” Jones Jr. (1927-2014) was an American comic artist made famous for the Mr. Abernathy newspaper strip. Jones and his partner, writer Frank Ridgeway, debuted the strip in 1957. During the time Ridgeway wrote for Mr. Abernathy he also wrote for both the Famous Studios and the Hanna-Barbera Studios. Jones resigned from the strip in the 1980s, while Ridgeway continued the strip as both the artist and writer until his death in 1994.
Mr. Abernathy (1957-1994) was a short, balding multimillionaire with a butler named Dudley and a sweet, but forgetful secretary named Flossie. Though Mr. Abernathy had a successful business and an enormous fortune, he was often seen engaging in careless behavior, such as chasing young women.
Location
Currently not on view
date made
1966-05-29
graphic artist
Jones, Ralston
publisher
King Features Syndicate
author
Ridgeway, Frank
ID Number
GA.22611
catalog number
22611
accession number
277502

Camera-ready comic art drawing for Gordo

This pen-and-ink drawing prepared for the Gordo newspaper comic strip shows Gordo’s nephew ruining the gifts Gordo is bringing his date by trying to explain them scientifically.Gustavo "Gus" Arriola (1917-2008) was a Mexican American comic artist and animator.
Description (Brief)
This pen-and-ink drawing prepared for the Gordo newspaper comic strip shows Gordo’s nephew ruining the gifts Gordo is bringing his date by trying to explain them scientifically.
Gustavo "Gus" Arriola (1917-2008) was a Mexican American comic artist and animator. He was born in Arizona, and raised by his older sister in a Spanish-speaking home. His first jobs included preparing animation art for Screen Gems and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Arriola's strip, which debuted in 1941, promoted a better understanding of Mexican culture and environmental concerns. The strip was suspended during World War II until 1943, when Arriola began drawing again from his military station. He remained the sole artist and writer on the strip for its entire run.
Gordo (1941-1985) was a strip about a Mexican dirt farmer, drawn with stereotyped attributes. After complaints from his public about his style and message Arriola altered the character to offer a more realistic representation. The strip’s subject was presented as a continuous narrative with daily gags. In later years it included features about Aztec and Mexican history and culture, as well as political and environmental commentary.
Location
Currently not on view
date made
1966-08-21
graphic artist
Arriola, Gus
publisher
United Feature Syndicate, Inc.
author
Lizer, Anna
ID Number
GA.22445
catalog number
22445
accession number
277502

Camera-ready comic art drawing for Brick Bradford

This pen-and-ink drawing produced for the Brick Bradford comic strip shows Hoppy beginning to drown at the base of a waterfall because his power pack has failed. The title character saves him, and they quickly realize that the rescue airship is nearby but cannot see them.
Description (Brief)
This pen-and-ink drawing produced for the Brick Bradford comic strip shows Hoppy beginning to drown at the base of a waterfall because his power pack has failed. The title character saves him, and they quickly realize that the rescue airship is nearby but cannot see them. Brick leaves to get its attention.
Paul Leroy Norris (1914-2007) began working as an illustrator and cartoonist in the late 1930s when he was hired by the Dayton Daily News. During the next decade Norris started developing comic books. In the 1940s he launched the short-lived undersea adventure comic Aquaman. After World War II Norris continued drawing for comic books and comic strips. He began working on the Brick Bradford dailies in 1952, and when creator Clarence Gray died in 1957 Norris took over the Sunday strip as well, and produced both until his retirement in 1987.
Brick Bradford (1933-1987) tells the fantastic tales of a space-age adventurer who encounters alien creatures from other worlds. Cocreator William Ritt heavily influenced the strip’s subjects with his interests in classical mythology and modern science.
Location
Currently not on view
date made
1966-07-10
graphic artist
Norris, Paul
publisher
King Features Syndicate
ID Number
GA.22577
catalog number
22577
accession number
277502

Camera-ready comic art drawing for Mickey Mouse

This pen-and-ink drawing prepared for the Mickey Mouse comic strip shows Minnie saying she misses the birds’ songs after they fly south, so Marty opens a bird-whistle stand.Arthur Floyd Gottfredson (1905-1986) began working for Walt Disney Studios in 1929 as an apprentice animato
Description (Brief)
This pen-and-ink drawing prepared for the Mickey Mouse comic strip shows Minnie saying she misses the birds’ songs after they fly south, so Marty opens a bird-whistle stand.
Arthur Floyd Gottfredson (1905-1986) began working for Walt Disney Studios in 1929 as an apprentice animator. After contributing to Silly Symphonies, a series of animated Disney shorts, Gottfredson was asked to take over the recently launched Mickey Mouse newspaper strip. Even though Walt Disney had been the original writer, and would continue to sign the strips, he gave Gottfredson responsibility for the art and the story shortly after its debut. Gottfredson originally wrote Mickey Mouse as an adventure strip, but by 1955 had changed the format to a “gag-a-day.” And though he only drew the Sunday pages for Mickey Mouse for six years during the 1930s, Gottfredson drew the daily strip until his retirement in 1975.
Mickey Mouse (1930-1976) was a comic strip based on the character originally appearing in the short film Steamboat Willie in 1928. In the strip, as in films and other media, Mickey was joined by his girlfriend, Minnie, and his friends, including the most popular among them the dogs Goofy and Pluto.
Location
Currently not on view
date made
1966-09-17
graphic artist
Disney, Walt
Gottfredson, Fred
publisher
King Features Syndicate
Walt Disney Productions
ID Number
GA.22434
catalog number
22434
accession number
277502

The Rocky Mountains, Lander's Peak

Currently not on view
Location
Currently not on view
date made
1896 - 1906
date of inscription
1946-10-25
Associated Date
ca 1860 - 1964
ID Number
DL.65.1313
catalog number
65.1313
accession number
255605

Camera-ready comic art drawing for Moose

This pen-and-ink drawing prepared for the Moose comic strip shows the title character losing his new job before it even starts, as his demonstrated laziness makes his would-be boss reconsider the job offer.Bob Weber Sr.
Description (Brief)
This pen-and-ink drawing prepared for the Moose comic strip shows the title character losing his new job before it even starts, as his demonstrated laziness makes his would-be boss reconsider the job offer.
Bob Weber Sr. (1934- ) worked as an illustrator in 1959 for both The Saturday Evening Post and the Laff-a-Day panels. Soon afterward he began assisting Dick Cavalli with the Winthrop newspaper strip and then debuted his own strip Moose in 1965.
Moose (1965- ), the lethargic title character, was a husband who was generally out of work. The domestic humor of the strip depended on Moose's exchanges with his family members and friends. A long-running gag in the strip saw Moose taking a new job almost every day, and borrowing from his friends in between jobs. Characters Moose and Molly have three children, one of whom seems to take after his father. In 1998 the name of the strip was changed to Moose and Molly to acknowledge Molly’s expanded role in the strip.
Location
Currently not on view
date made
1966-06-23
graphic artist
Weber, Bob
publisher
King Features Syndicate
ID Number
GA.22404
catalog number
22404
accession number
277502

Camera-ready comic art drawing for Kerry Drake

This pen-and-ink drawing produced for the Kerry Drake comic strip shows Drake looking for Cricket and Paul after they have been taken hostage by “killers.”Alfred James Andriola (1912-1983) after studying to become a writer, worked with Milton Caniff on the Terry and the Pirates s
Description (Brief)
This pen-and-ink drawing produced for the Kerry Drake comic strip shows Drake looking for Cricket and Paul after they have been taken hostage by “killers.”
Alfred James Andriola (1912-1983) after studying to become a writer, worked with Milton Caniff on the Terry and the Pirates strip and then on his own adaptation of Earl Derr Biggers’s character, Charlie Chan. Andriola drew Charlie Chan until the early 1940s and then began working with Allen Saunders on Dan Dunn, and then on his own strip Kerry Drake, which he wrote and drew until his death in 1983. Toward the end of his life, Andriola was assisted by several artists who continued the strip after his death.
Kerry Drake (1943-1983), like similar dramatic strips, was written to appeal to interests in a less physical character portrayal, although the Kerry Drake character was involved in crime control after the murder of his fiancée. With his success at bringing the criminal to justice, the strip became more of a soap opera-style drama.
Location
Currently not on view
date made
1966-09-06
graphic artist
Andriola, Alfred
publisher
Publishers Newspapers Syndicate, Inc.
ID Number
GA.22430
catalog number
22430
accession number
277502

Camera-ready comic art drawing for Fred Basset

This pen-and-ink drawing produced for the Fred Basset comic strip shows Fred upset because his “Best of Breed” trophy has been put away and forgotten in a closet. The drawing includes the date "9-14" and is presumed to date from about 1966.Alexander S.
Description (Brief)
This pen-and-ink drawing produced for the Fred Basset comic strip shows Fred upset because his “Best of Breed” trophy has been put away and forgotten in a closet. The drawing includes the date "9-14" and is presumed to date from about 1966.
Alexander S. Graham (1913-1991) was a Scottish artist who created the comic strips Wee Hughie, Our Bill, and Briggs the Butler for British newspapers between the 1940s and 1960s. Graham debuted Fred Basset in 1963. The strip was syndicated and distributed to international audiences.
Fred Basset (1963- ) was about the daily life of a Basset Hound who communicated with comic strip readers, but not with his owner. Many times the strip's humor was the result of Fred's thought-commentary about mundane activities, such as trying to catch some table scraps or following his owner on a round of golf. The strip was continued after Graham's death in 1991 by his daughter Arran. It is currently being prepared by artist Michael Martin, with consultation by Graham's daughter.
Location
Currently not on view
date made
ca 1966
graphic artist
Graham, Alex
publisher
Hall Syndicate, Inc.
ID Number
GA.22607
catalog number
22607
accession number
277502

Camera-ready comic art drawing for Gil Thorp

This pen-and-ink drawing produced for the Gil Thorp comic strip shows Coach Thorp trying to encourage Ziggy to stay on the team despite Ziggy's concern that he brings bad luck to the games.John A.
Description (Brief)
This pen-and-ink drawing produced for the Gil Thorp comic strip shows Coach Thorp trying to encourage Ziggy to stay on the team despite Ziggy's concern that he brings bad luck to the games.
John A. "Jack" Berrill (1923-1996) began his art career as a copy boy for the art department at the New York Daily News in 1941. He then assisted cartoonist Martin Branner on Winnie Winkle. After World War II Berrill began working on the Famous Funnies comic books. In 1958, inspired by his two sports heroes, football player Jim Thorp and baseball player Gil Hodges, Berrill developed a strip about a high school athletics coach named Gil Thorp. Berrill drew the strip until his health forced him to turn the work over to assistants in 1994.
Gil Thorp (1958- ) is a comic strip concerning a retired athlete who coaches high school students. The strip is focused on high school students and themes about competitive squabbles and dating, as well as more serious topics such as teen pregnancy and drug abuse. In the 1970s Thorp began dating a physical education teacher named Mimi. The two later married and started a family with two children.
Location
Currently not on view
date made
1966-06-07
graphic artist
Berrill, Jack
publisher
Tribune Printing Company
ID Number
GA.22379
catalog number
22379
accession number
277502

Camera-ready comic art drawing for Dr. Kildare

This pen-and-ink drawing produced for the Dr.
Description (Brief)
This pen-and-ink drawing produced for the Dr. Kildare comic strip shows Blanco visiting the hospital operating room where his curiosity about a surgery in process prompts the title character to ask if Blanco would ever consider becoming a doctor.
Kenneth Bruce Bald (1920- ) started his career as an artist at Jack Binder’s New York studios drawing features for Fawcett comic books. After his service in World War II, Bald continued working on comic books and eventually transitioned to comic strips, beginning with Judd Saxon in 1957 and Dr. Kildare in 1962, which he drew until his retirement in 1984. In addition, throughout the early 1970s, Bald drew a comic strip version of the popular television show Dark Shadows, for which he used his pseudonym “K. Bruce.”
Dr. Kildare (1962-1983) was a comic strip based on the popular film, radio, television, and comic book character James Kildare. The title character first appeared in the 1937 film Internes Can’t Take Money, starring Joel McCrea. Early storylines featured Dr. Kildare as a medical intern being mentored by an older physician named Dr. Leonard Gillespie. In 1961 the film was adapted into a television series, which was in turn adapted into a newspaper strip.
Location
Currently not on view
date made
1966-10-09
graphic artist
Bald, Ken
publisher
King Features Syndicate
ID Number
GA.22565
catalog number
22565
accession number
277502

Camera-ready comic page, entitled "Glamour Girls".

Don Flowers (d. 1968) created and drew "Glamour Girls", a series of so-called "pinup cartoons" between the 1940s and the 1960s. The cartoons featured beautiful blonds and brunettes, who lived to shop and generally cause males grief.
Description
Don Flowers (d. 1968) created and drew "Glamour Girls", a series of so-called "pinup cartoons" between the 1940s and the 1960s. The cartoons featured beautiful blonds and brunettes, who lived to shop and generally cause males grief. Men were often the characters that drove the gags. This comic page features Glamour Girls in different scenarios at the beach, in a boat, on the phone, at a picnic, as cavemen, and during a fight at a party.
Location
Currently not on view
date made
06/26/1966
graphic artist
Flowers, Don
publisher
King Features Syndicate
ID Number
GA.22576
catalog number
22576
accession number
277502

Camera-ready comic art drawing for Eek & Meek

This pen-and-ink drawing produced for the Eek and Meek comic strip shows Meek getting on a soapbox and giving a speech about economic inflation and making a pun about “passing the buck.”Howard Adolph "Howie" Schneider (1930-2007) created the popular Eek and Meek comic strip in 19
Description (Brief)
This pen-and-ink drawing produced for the Eek and Meek comic strip shows Meek getting on a soapbox and giving a speech about economic inflation and making a pun about “passing the buck.”
Howard Adolph "Howie" Schneider (1930-2007) created the popular Eek and Meek comic strip in 1965. In 2000, after the conclusion of Eek and Meek, he became the editorial cartoonist for the Provincetown Banner, and created a weekly comic called Unshucked as well as a daily strip called The Sunshine Club.
Eek and Meek (1965-2000) told the story of two mice with opposing characteristics. Eek was disheveled and aggressive. Meek was gentle and secretly loved a female mouse named Monique. During the life of the strip the two began to be drawn with more human characteristics. The final strip ran in March 2000 with the marriage of Meek and Monique.
Location
Currently not on view
date made
1966-09-21
publisher
NEA, Inc.
graphic artist
Schneider, Howie
ID Number
GA.22436
catalog number
22436
accession number
277502

Camera-ready comic panel, entitled "Glamour Girls".

Don Flowers (d. 1968) created and drew "Glamour Girls", a series of so-called "pinup cartoons" between the 1940s and the 1960s. The cartoons featured beautiful blonds and brunettes, who lived to shop and generally cause males grief.
Description
Don Flowers (d. 1968) created and drew "Glamour Girls", a series of so-called "pinup cartoons" between the 1940s and the 1960s. The cartoons featured beautiful blonds and brunettes, who lived to shop and generally cause males grief. Men were often the characters that drove the gags. In this panel, a girl stands in front of her parents with a sling on her arm, covered in bandages. Her hair is long and hangs over her eyes. The father says, "And I say she doesn't need glasses, she needs a haircut."
Location
Currently not on view
date made
07/03/1966
graphic artist
Flowers, Don
publisher
King Features Syndicate
ID Number
GA.22377
catalog number
22377
accession number
277502

Camera-ready comic art drawing for Judge Parker

This pen-and-ink drawing produced for the Judge Parker comic strip shows Charles holding Casandra Canabar and Randy Parker hostage, telling them to report to the police that the emergency call had been a false alarm.Harold Anthony LeDoux (1926-2015) moved to New York City after W
Description (Brief)
This pen-and-ink drawing produced for the Judge Parker comic strip shows Charles holding Casandra Canabar and Randy Parker hostage, telling them to report to the police that the emergency call had been a false alarm.
Harold Anthony LeDoux (1926-2015) moved to New York City after World War II and began drawing for the Famous Funnies comic books. In 1953 he began assisting Dan Heilman on the comic strip Judge Parker. LeDoux took over the strip after Heilman's death in 1965 and retired in 2006.
Judge Parker (1952- ) was created by psychiatrist and writer Nick Dallis. Dallis invited Dan Heilman, who had previously assisted on Buz Sawyer and Mary Worth,to be the artist for Judge Parker. The title character was a widower with two children, who later married a younger woman. Originally written as an attractive crime-fighting character, Parker had by the 1960s become more conservative and sedate while the younger attorney, Sam Driver, became more central to the cast, along with his client and girlfriend, Abby, and her two children.
Location
Currently not on view
date made
1966-08-21
graphic artist
LeDoux, Harold
publisher
Publishers Newspapers Syndicate, Inc.
ID Number
GA.22570
catalog number
22570
accession number
277502

Camera-ready comic strip, entitled "Felix".

"Felix", featuring one of the first animated characters in history, Felix the Cat, was created and originally drawn by Otto Messmer in 1919. In 1954, his assistant Joe Oriolo took over the strip, adding in Felix's famous "bag of tricks".
Description
"Felix", featuring one of the first animated characters in history, Felix the Cat, was created and originally drawn by Otto Messmer in 1919. In 1954, his assistant Joe Oriolo took over the strip, adding in Felix's famous "bag of tricks". The newspaper strip, distributed by King Features, features Felix and his family, along with Felix's adventures in outwitting the evil Professor. In this strip, the boys tell Felix about compound interest and their savings accounts.
Location
Currently not on view
date made
11/06/1965
publisher
King Features Syndicate
graphic artist
Oriolo, Joe
ID Number
GA.22365
catalog number
22365
accession number
277502

Camera-ready drawing, entitled "Glamour Girls".

Don Flowers (d. 1968) created and drew "Glamour Girls", a series of so-called "pinup cartoons" between the 1940s and the 1960s. The cartoons featured beautiful blonds and brunettes, who lived to shop and generally cause males grief.
Description
Don Flowers (d. 1968) created and drew "Glamour Girls", a series of so-called "pinup cartoons" between the 1940s and the 1960s. The cartoons featured beautiful blonds and brunettes, who lived to shop and generally cause males grief. Men were often the characters that drove the gags. This is an original artist drawing of the Glamour Girls characters.
Location
Currently not on view
date made
undated
circa 1950s
circa 1960s
graphic artist
Flowers, Don
ID Number
GA.22519
catalog number
22519
accession number
277502

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