Camera-ready comic art drawing for <i>Winthrop</i>
date: label: date made
content: 1966-05-01
name: label: original artist
content: Cavalli, Dick
label: publisher
content: NEA, Inc.
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This pen-and-ink drawing prepared for the <i>Winthrop</i> comic strip shows the title character’s friend discussing and playing modern popular music when Winthrop asks for an old waltz record instead.
label: Description (Brief)
content: Dick Cavalli (1923- ) began his cartooning career creating pen and ink drawings of museum fossils at New York’s American Museum of Natural History, shortly after the end of World War II. As a freelancer he created and launched the comic strip <i>Morty Meekle</i> in 1956. The name of the syndicated strip was changed to <i>Winthrop</i> in 1966. With the help of several assistants Cavalli continued to draw the strip until 1993. In 1982 Cavalli also drew the comic strip <i>Norbert</i> after creator George Fett's retirement.
label: Description (Brief)
content: <i>Winthrop</i> (1956-1993), introduced with the title <i>Morty Meekle,</i> was a strip about courtship. Morty, the title character, was involved in a long, drawn-out relationship with Jill Wortle, whose family couldn’t wait for the two to become engaged. The obstacles to an engagement included Morty Meekle’s low-paying job. Jill’s younger brother, Winthrop, eventually became the central character of the strip directed to more of a children’s audience. The strip featured an eclectic group of Winthrop’s friends.
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.22581
label: catalog number
content: 22581
label: accession number
content: 277502
objectType: label: Object Name
content: drawing
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: 37 cm x 59 cm; 14 9/16 in x 23 1/4 in