Camera-ready comic art drawing for <i>Dan Flagg</i>
date: label: date made
content: 1966-07-24
name: label: publisher
content: Bell-McClure Syndicate
label: graphic artist
content: Sherwood, Don
label: author
content: Thomas, Jerry
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This pen-and-ink drawing prepared for the <i>Dan Flagg</i> comic strip shows the title character and companions aboard a yacht in trouble during a storm. Flagg tries to calm the other passengers and announces the arrival of the U.S. Coast Guard.
label: Description (Brief)
content: Don Sherwood (1930-2010) spent his youth preparing to be a comic artist and after serving as a U.S. Marine in the Korean War assisted on <i>Terry and the Pirates.</i> In 1963 he debuted his own strip, <i>Dan Flagg,</i> inspired by the U.S. Marine Corps. After <i>Dan Flagg</i> was canceled in 1967, Sherwood began drawing for Hanna-Barbera, Columbia Pictures, the comic book <i>The Phantom,</i> and <i>The Flintstones</i> comic strip.
label: Description (Brief)
content: <i>Dan Flagg</i> (1963-1967) was an adventure comic strip that premiered during the Vietnam War. As World War II had been a popular subject matter for comic strips in the 1940s, publishers thought that comic strips about the Vietnam War would be just as popular. However, though readers thought <i>Dan Flagg</i> was an entertaining character, increasing opposition to the Vietnam War prevented the strip from enjoying sufficient popularity. <i>Dan Flagg</i> was dropped by its syndicate in 1965 and canceled permanently in 1967.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Work and Industry: Graphic Arts
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content: Popular Entertainment
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content: Military
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content: Cultures & Communities
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content: Comic Art
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content: Communications
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content: Art
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Newspaper Comics Council, Inc., New York, NY
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: GA.22575
label: catalog number
content: 22575
label: accession number
content: 277502
objectType: label: Object Name
content: drawing
label: Object Type
content: Drawings
label: Other Terms
content: drawing; Pen and Ink
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: ink (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 49.8 cm x 71.2 cm; 19 5/8 in x 28 1/16 in