Camera-ready comic art drawing for Short Ribs
Camera-ready comic art drawing for Short Ribs
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- Description (Brief)
- This pen-and-ink drawing prepared for the Short Ribs comic strip shows the wedding of Gert and a younger, attractive man who appears to have been the victim of a spell.
- Frank O’Neal (1921-1986) sold his first cartoon to the Saturday Evening Post in 1950. In 1958 he debuted his Short Ribs comic strip and continued to draw the strip until 1973. His assistant, Frank Hill, then took over the strip and O’Neal spent the rest of his career creating advertising art.
- Short Ribs (1958-1982) was a strip without a regular cast or a continuous setting. With some frequency, however, the strip took place in a castle in Medieval Europe. Other locations included Ancient Egypt or the American West. The storylines regularly made references to 20th-century events.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- drawing
- Other Terms
- drawing; Pen and Ink
- date made
- 1966-04-17
- graphic artist
- O'Neal, Frank
- publisher
- NEA, Inc.
- Physical Description
- paper (overall material)
- ink (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 44.6 cm x 60.8 cm; 17 9/16 in x 23 15/16 in
- ID Number
- GA.22568
- catalog number
- 22568
- accession number
- 277502
- Credit Line
- Newspaper Comics Inc., New York, NY
- See more items in
- Work and Industry: Graphic Arts
- Cultures & Communities
- Communications
- Comic Art
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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