Camera-ready comic strip, entitled "Beetle Bailey".
Camera-ready comic strip, entitled "Beetle Bailey".
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- Description
- "Beetle Bailey" was created and continues to be drawn by Mort Walker (b. 1923). The comic strip centers around characters on Camp Swampy, a fictitious United States Army military post. The main character, Beetle Bailey, is consistently lazy, drawing negative attention towards him and causing antics on the post. In this strip, the General is briefing his men on battle plans. He soon learns that asking his men for criticisms was the wrong plan.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- Drawing
- Object Type
- Drawings
- Other Terms
- Drawing; Pen and Ink
- date made
- 07/03/1966
- graphic artist
- Walker, Mort
- publisher
- King Features Syndicate
- Physical Description
- paper (overall material)
- ink (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 43.5 cm x 54.8 cm; 17 1/8 in x 21 9/16 in
- ID Number
- GA.22601
- catalog number
- 22601
- accession number
- 277502
- Credit Line
- Newspaper Comics Council, Inc., New York, NY
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- Work and Industry: Graphic Arts
- Cultures & Communities
- Communications
- Military
- Art
- Popular Entertainment
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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