Camera-ready comic art drawing for <i>Freddy</i>
date: label: date made
content: ca 1966
name: label: graphic artist
content: Baldwin, Robert G.
label: publisher
content: Washington Star
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This pen-and-ink drawing produced for the <i>Freddy</i> comic strip shows Freddy hearing that being polite will solve all his problems with the bully named Dutch, but his polite attempts only bring more trouble. The drawing includes the date "7-6" and is presumed to date from about 1966.
label: Description (Brief)
content: Robert G. "Rupe" Baldwin (1914-1977) was trained as a painter, but took early jobs in advertising and cartooning. In the 1950s, after working in comic books for a short time, he moved to the Far East while working for the Central Intelligence Agency. During this period he developed <i>Freddy,</i> signing the strip with his pseudonym Rupe, and in 1955 sold it to some one hundred newspapers.
label: Description (Brief)
content: <i>Freddy</i> (1955-1980) was described as a young boy, who with his friends, was modeled after Baldwin's own children. Baldwin's wife, Helen, assisted with the strip writing. In early 1969 Baldwin began drawing the children more realistically and as older individuals, but negative public reaction inspired a return to his earlier portrayals.
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.22383
label: catalog number
content: 22383
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: 14.8 cm x 58.7 cm; 5 13/16 in x 23 1/8 in