Camera-ready comic art drawing for <i>Buz Sawyer</i>
date: label: date made
content: 1966-06-24
name: label: graphic artist
content: Crane, Roy
label: publisher
content: King Features Syndicate
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This pen-and-ink drawing produced for the <i>Buz Sawyer</i> comic strip shows U.S. Air Force jets flying close to Tam’s plane, as Buz tries to signal that he and Tam are not the enemy.
label: Description (Brief)
content: Royston Campbell "Roy" Crane (1901-1977) studied art in Chicago. He started a short-lived strip called <i>Wash Tubbs</i> in 1924, and <i>Captain Easy</i> in 1929, as an outlet for ideas from his own travels through Central America. Later, in 1943, Crane launched <i>Buz Sawyer</i> which, unlike <i>Captain Easy,</i> allowed him ownership of all the rights to his strip. Crane drew the strip with the help of assistants until the 1960s, when he retired because of health issues.
label: Description (Brief)
content: <i>Buz Sawyer</i> (1943-1989) told the story of World War II U.S. Navy fighter pilot John Singer “Buz” Sawyer. With the real-life end of the war, Buz's life changed with his marriage and the birth of his son. By the early 1950s Buz is shown as returning to the U.S. Navy and later fighting in the Vietnam War. The strip was continued into the late 1980s but the Sunday version of the strip was discontinued in 1974.
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: 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.22438
label: catalog number
content: 22438
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 color)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 14.2 cm x 43.5 cm; 5 9/16 in x 17 1/8 in