Camera-ready comic strip, entitled "Grandma".
Camera-ready comic strip, entitled "Grandma".
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- Description
- Charles Kuhn (1892-1989), who studied under fellow cartoonist Frank King, is most known for his comic strip "Grandma". The strip features the antics of a 90-year old woman and her grandchildren, based on the artist's own mother. In this strip, Grandma disguises a watermelon as a football so that the grandkids will stay away from it until its ready to eat.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- Drawing
- Object Type
- Drawings
- Other Terms
- Drawing; Pen and Ink
- date made
- 09/02/1966
- graphic artist
- Kuhn, Charles
- publisher
- King Features Syndicate
- Physical Description
- paper (overall material)
- ink (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 17.5 cm x 60.9 cm; 6 7/8 in x 24 in
- ID Number
- GA.22592
- catalog number
- 22592
- accession number
- 277502
- Credit Line
- Newspaper Comics Council, Inc., New York, NY
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- Work and Industry: Graphic Arts
- Cultures & Communities
- Communications
- Art
- Popular Entertainment
- Family & Social Life
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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