Bill, Boob McNutt, and Are you saving jokers?
date: label: Date made
content: Sunday April 29, 1934
label: date made
content: Sunday, April 29, 1934
name: label: original artist
content: Goldberg, Rube
label: publisher
content: Star Company
notes: label: Description
content: Camera-ready pen and ink drawings by Rube Goldberg for his comic series <I>Bill,</I> <I>Boob McNutt,</I> and <I>Are you saving jokers?</I> dated April 29, 1934. Goldberg drew for the <I>Bill</I> series between 1931 and 1934, for the <I>Boob McNutt</I> series between 1915 and 1934, and for the <I>Are you saving jokers?</I> series in 1934.
label: Description
content: Bill is caught trying to elope with Babe without her father's concent. The father claims that Bill is broke and isn't good enough for his daugher, while he is caught speeding on the way to retrieve her, but doesn't have the money to pay the fine. Mr. Wiffle tries to start a revolution by paying off a foreign army to save Boob McNutt from marrying the Queen of Tomania. Playing card jokers illustrate contemporary personalities.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, New York City
setName: label: See more items in
content: Work and Industry: Graphic Arts
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2006.0226.40
label: catalog number
content: 2006.0226.40
label: accession number
content: 2006.0226
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Object Type
content: drawing
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: 37.5 cm x 58.5 cm; 14 3/4 in x 23 1/16 in