Camera-ready comic art drawing for <i>Ponytail</i>
date: label: date made
content: 1966-07-31
name: label: graphic artist
content: Holley, Lee
label: publisher
content: King Features Syndicate
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This pen-and-ink drawing prepared for the <i>Ponytail</i> comic strip shows the title character asking Stickshift, her mechanically inclined friend, to help start the new lawn mower, after being brushed off by her boyfriend, Donald.
label: Description (Brief)
content: Lee Holley (1933- ) sold his first cartoon at age fifteen, and just a few years later went to work for Warner Bros. Animation Studios as an artist. In 1957 he began ghostwriting the <i>Dennis the Menace</i> Sunday strip. In 1960 he launch his own strip <i>Ponytail,</i> which ran until 1989. Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, Holley also contributed artwork to Warner Bros. comic books.
label: Description (Brief)
content: <i>Ponytail</i> (1960-1989), like earlier strips <i>Emmy Lou</i> and <i>Penny,</i> was a strip about the adventures and social mishaps of a teenage girl. Though <i>Ponytail</i> premiered after other comics with similar themes, it was an instant hit. It was also briefly adapted as a comic book.
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.22554
label: catalog number
content: 22554
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 material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 42.1 cm x 58.9 cm; 16 9/16 in x 23 3/16 in