Camera-ready comic art drawing for Judge Parker
Camera-ready comic art drawing for Judge Parker
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- 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
- Object Name
- drawing
- Object Type
- Drawings
- Other Terms
- drawing; Pen and Ink
- date made
- 1966-08-21
- graphic artist
- LeDoux, Harold
- publisher
- Publishers Newspapers Syndicate, Inc.
- Physical Description
- paper (overall material)
- ink (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 39.6 cm x 58.8 cm; 15 9/16 in x 23 1/8 in
- ID Number
- GA.22570
- catalog number
- 22570
- accession number
- 277502
- Credit Line
- Newspaper Comics Council, Inc., New York, NY
- subject
- Criminal Investigation
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- Work and Industry: Graphic Arts
- Popular Entertainment
- Family & Social Life
- Cultures & Communities
- Comic Art
- Communications
- Art
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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