Camera-ready comic art drawing for <i>Abbie an' Slats</i>
date: label: date made
content: 1966-08-23
name: label: graphic artist
content: Van Buren, Raeburn
label: publisher
content: United Feature Syndicate, Inc.
label: graphic artist
content: Capp, Al
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This pen-and-ink drawing produced for the <i>Abbie an’ Slats</i> comic strip shows Kit trying to irritate Miss Abbie by proposing to host a party and to demolish Miss Abbie’s apartment.
label: Description (Brief)
content: Raeburn Van Buren (1891-1987) started his career as a freelance illustrator for magazines such as <i>Life</i> and <i>The Saturday Evening Post.</i> He quickly became one of the country’s most recognized magazine illustrators and eventually began drawing for <i>Esquire</i> and <i>The New Yorker</i> as well. In 1937 fellow artist Al Capp approached Van Buren with an offer to draw Capp's new comic strip, <i>Abbie an’ Slats.</i> Van Buren drew the strip until his retirement in 1971.
label: Description (Brief)
content: <i>Abbie an’ Slats</i> (1937-1971) was a story about a young orphaned boy from New York, Slats, who goes to live in the country with a spinster cousin named Abbie. Slats is headstrong and rebellious, and often disagrees with Abbie and her straight-laced sister, Sally.
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.22457
label: catalog number
content: 22457
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: 17.8 cm x 53.4 cm; 7 in x 21 in