Camera-ready comic art drawing for Joe Palooka
- 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.
- Physical Description
- paper (overall material)
- ink (overall color)
- Measurements
- overall: 12.7 cm x 40.4 cm; 5 in x 15 7/8 in
- ID Number
- GA.22471.02
- catalog number
- 22471.02
- accession number
- 277502
- Credit Line
- Newspaper Comics Council, Inc., New York, NY
- subject
- Boxing
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- Culture and the Arts: Graphic Arts
- Cultures & Communities
- Communications
- Art
- Popular Entertainment
- Comic Art
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
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