Camera-ready comic art drawing for <i>Steve Canyon</i>
date: label: date made
content: 1966
name: label: graphic artist
content: Caniff, Milton
label: publisher
content: Publishers Newspapers Syndicate, Inc.
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This pen-and-ink drawing prepared for the <i>Steve Canyon</i> comic strip shows another officer suggesting to Steve that the Chinese may be smuggling contraband explosives into both the United States and Russia in hopes that each of the two countries would think the other was responsible for atomic activities.
label: Description (Brief)
content: In 1932 Milton Arthur Paul Caniff (1907-1988) began working in New York as an artist on strips for the Associated Press's Features Service. His work on what would become his most popular strip, <i>Terry and the Pirates,</i> was first published in 1934. Even with the success of the strip, Caniff resigned from Features Service in 1946 to obtain the rights to his own work and debuted <i>Steve Canyon.</i> Caniff also founded the National Cartoonists Society that year, and received its first Cartoonist of the Year Award.
label: Description (Brief)
content: <i>Steve Canyon</i> (1947-1988) was a comic strip about a veteran who returns to the U.S. Air Force during the Korean War. The story usually followed the exploits of Canyon and his friends, who were also veterans. Cold War issues and tributes to service members were regular themes of the strip.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Work and Industry: Graphic Arts
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content: Cultures & Communities
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content: Comic Art
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content: Communications
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.22449
label: catalog number
content: 22449
label: accession number
content: 277502
objectType: label: Object Name
content: drawing
label: Object Type
content: Cartoon
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: 45.1 cm x 61.2 cm; 17 3/4 in x 24 1/8 in