Camera-ready comic art drawing for <i>Kerry Drake</i>
date: label: date made
content: 1966-09-06
name: label: graphic artist
content: Andriola, Alfred
label: publisher
content: Publishers Newspapers Syndicate, Inc.
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This pen-and-ink drawing produced for the <i>Kerry Drake</i> comic strip shows Drake looking for Cricket and Paul after they have been taken hostage by “killers.”
label: Description (Brief)
content: Alfred James Andriola (1912-1983) after studying to become a writer, worked with Milton Caniff on the <i>Terry and the Pirates</i> strip and then on his own adaptation of Earl Derr Biggers’s character, Charlie Chan. Andriola drew <i>Charlie Chan</i> until the early 1940s and then began working with Allen Saunders on <i>Dan Dunn,</i> and then on his own strip <i>Kerry Drake,</i> which he wrote and drew until his death in 1983. Toward the end of his life, Andriola was assisted by several artists who continued the strip after his death.
label: Description (Brief)
content: <i>Kerry Drake</i> (1943-1983), like similar dramatic strips, was written to appeal to interests in a less physical character portrayal, although the Kerry Drake character was involved in crime control after the murder of his fiancée. With his success at bringing the criminal to justice, the strip became more of a soap opera-style drama.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Criminal Investigation
setName: label: See more items in
content: Work and Industry: Graphic Arts
label: See more items in
content: Popular Entertainment
label: See more items in
content: Family & Social Life
label: See more items in
content: Cultures & Communities
label: See more items in
content: Comic Art
label: See more items in
content: Communications
label: See more items in
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.22430
label: catalog number
content: 22430
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: 73.7 cm x 51 cm; 29 in x 20 1/16 in