Camera-ready comic art drawing for <i>Moon Mullins</i> and <i>Kitty Higgins</i>
date: label: date made
content: 1961-10-22
name: label: graphic artist
content: Johnson, Ferd
label: publisher
content: News Syndicate Co., Inc.
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This pen-and-ink drawing prepared for the <i>Moon Mullins</i> comic strip shows Mullins going to a therapist because he's being seen as procrastinating at work. The session is unsuccessful, however, as Mullins persists in his easygoing work habits. Included in this story board is Ferd Johnson's "topper" strip <i>Kitty Higgins,</i> about the young and clever girl who later became a <i>Moon Mullins</i> character.
label: Description (Brief)
content: Ferdinand "Ferd" Johnson (1905-1996) took a job in 1923 assisting on Frank Willard's new comic strip <i>Moon Mullins.</i> In 1925 Johnson started drawing his own Sunday comic called <i>Texas Slim,</i> and a few years later he launched <i>Lovey-Dovey.</i> In 1958 Johnson took over <i>Moon Mullins</i> which he continued until its cancellation in 1991.
label: Description (Brief)
content: <i>Moon Mullins</i> (1923-1991) was about a hard-living, would-be prizefighter nicknamed Moon. The strip offered storylines and personality characteristics which were appealing to readers during the Prohibition era. <i>Moon Mullins</i> was reinterpreted as a radio show and was regularly included as an animated television presentation on the 1970s Saturday morning cartoon program <i>Archie’s TV Funnies.</i>
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: 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.22589
label: catalog number
content: 22589
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: 43.4 cm x 62.3 cm; 17 1/16 in x 24 1/2 in