Camera-ready comic art drawing for <i>Louie</i>
date: label: date made
content: 1965-07-25
name: label: graphic artist
content: Hanan, Harry
label: publisher
content: News Syndicate Co., Inc.
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This pen-and-ink drawing produced for the <i>Louie</i> comic strip shows the title character frustrated with cooking. He misses his wife until she comes home and starts to scold him for leaving a messy kitchen, after which he starts to wish she was back on vacation.
label: Description (Brief)
content: Harry Hanan (1916-1982) was a British comic artist who started his illustrating career at the <i>Liverpool Evening Express.</i> After World War II he became a cartoonist for London's <i>The People,</i> in which his strip <i>Louie</i> was first published in 1947. The strip, without a script, was syndicated internationally.
label: Description (Brief)
content: <i>Louie</i> (1947-1976) was a domestic comedy strip about a short, ordinary, middle-aged man and his wife. The character Louie was often seen being frustrated while grinning and bearing everything silently, without a script, throughout the run.
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: Family & Social Life
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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.22598
label: catalog number
content: 22598
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: 40.7 cm x 57.1 cm; 16 in x 22 1/2 in