Camera-ready comic strip for <i>Archie</i>
date: label: date made
content: 1966-07-18
name: label: graphic artist
content: Montana, Bob
label: publisher
content: Archie Comic Publications, Inc.
label: publisher
content: King Features Syndicate
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This pen-and-ink drawing produced for the <i>Archie</i> comic strip shows Veronica hosting a party and suggesting to Archie that he and Jughead can later sleep on the couch, which turns into a bed. Archie suggests to Jug that pressing the button for the foldout couch will also provide him food.
label: Description (Brief)
content: Robert William "Bob" Montana (1920-1975), in his youth, drew caricatures of customers in his father’s restaurant in New Hampshire. Later he became a freelance illustrator and at age twenty-one, in the 1940s, Montana created and started drawing <i>Archie</i> for the comic book series <i>Pep Comics,</i> and soon after the <i>Archie</i> comic strip. Montana drew the daily and Sunday <i>Archie</i> strips as well as <i>Archie</i> comic books until his death in 1975.
label: Description (Brief)
content: <i>Archie</i> (1947- ) is said to have been based on the 1930s and 1940s Andy Hardy movies, such as <i>A Family Affair</i> and <i>Love Finds Andy Hardy.</i> Even though the comic subject was originally included as filler in the publication called <i>Pep Comics,</i> which included mostly superhero stories, after about a year <i>Archie</i> appeared on the comic book cover. <i>Archie</i> was syndicated in newspapers across the country beginning in 1947. The subject was also included in radio and television spin-offs.
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: Comic Art
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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.22441
label: catalog number
content: 22441
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: 15.1 cm x 48.3 cm; 5 15/16 in x 19 in