Camera-ready comic art drawing for <i>Trudy</i>
date: label: date made
content: 1966-07-10
name: label: graphic artist
content: Marcus, Jerry
label: publisher
content: King Features Syndicate
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This pen-and-ink drawing produced for the <i>Trudy</i> comic strip shows the title character’s husband being obsessed by golf and always either playing, watching, or talking about it, which is shown to annoy his family.
label: Description (Brief)
content: Jerry Marcus (1924-2005) freelanced most of his career. Throughout the 1940s and 1950s he sold several of his cartoons to <i>The New Yorker,</i> <i>Look</i> magazine, the <i>Ladies' Home Journal,</i> and others. <i>Trudy</i> debuted in 1963, and Marcus drew it until his death in 2005.
label: Description (Brief)
content: <i>Trudy</i> (1963-2005) was a comic strip about a middle-class homemaker. She was said to have been inspired by creator Jerry Marcus's own mother, who raised four children by herself. Even though she was a homemaker, Trudy was also described as the head of the household, as she took care of juggling the needs of her husband, children, and a pet cat named Fatkat.
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.22464
label: catalog number
content: 22464
label: accession number
content: 277502
objectType: label: Object Name
content: drawing
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: 29.4 cm x 50.9 cm; 11 9/16 in x 20 1/16 in