Camera-ready comic art drawing for <i>Mutt & Jeff</i>
date: label: date made
content: 1966-07-04
name: label: graphic artist
content: Fisher, Bud
label: graphic artist
content: Smith, Al
label: publisher
content: Bell-McClure Syndicate
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This pen-and-ink drawing produced for the <i>Mutt & Jeff</i> comic strip shows Mutt asking why there was a fish in his drink.
label: Description (Brief)
content: Al Smith (1902-1986) as a young adult worked in the syndication department for the <i>New York World.</i> After 1932 <i>Mutt & Jeff</i> creator Bud Fisher handed over the strip to Smith, who did not begin signing the strip with his own name until Fisher’s death in 1954. Smith drew the strip until 1980. During his career Smith also wrote other strips, but none as memorable as <i>Mutt & Jeff.</i>
label: Description (Brief)
content: <i>Mutt & Jeff</i> (1907-1983) was originally titled <i>A(ugustus). Mutt,</i> for a character who had previously appeared in creator Bud Fisher’s sports cartoons. In 1908 the character Mutt met Jeff in a behavioral health facility and their pairing proved to be a comedic hit. The characters Mutt and Jeff were written as lovable and simpleminded with a shared gambling problem, regularly shown at the horse races. <i>Mutt & Jeff</i> began to be included in the comic books in the 1930s.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Humor
label: Subject
content: Popular Culture
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content: Work and Industry: Graphic Arts
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content: Popular Entertainment
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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.22461
label: accession number
content: 277502
label: catalog number
content: 22461
objectType: label: Object Name
content: drawing
label: Object Type
content: Drawings
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: ink (overall color)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 15.4 cm x 45.4 cm; 6 1/16 in x 17 7/8 in