Camera-ready comic art drawing for <i>Bugs Bunny</i>
date: label: date made
content: 1966-06-26
name: label: graphic artist
content: Heimdahl, Ralph
label: publisher
content: Warner Brothers Pictures, Inc.
label: publisher
content: Bell-McClure Syndicate
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This pen-and-ink drawing produced for the <i>Bugs Bunny</i> comic strip shows Sylvester, Bugs, and a goat named Cynthia going to the beach to play some music. In order to dissuade a heckler, who put sand in Bugs’s tuba, Cynthia simply butts him with her head.
label: Description (Brief)
content: Ralph Heimdahl (1909-1981) spent the earlier part of his career animating for Walt Disney Studios. His work included early animation for <i>Snow White</i> (1937), <i>Fantasia</i> (1940), and <i>Dumbo</i> (1941). In addition to his work for Disney, Heimdahl also illustrated the <i>Bugs Bunny</i> daily comic strip starting in 1948. He later took over the Sunday strip, which he animated until the 1970s.
label: Description (Brief)
content: <i>Bugs Bunny</i> (1942-1970s), the newspaper strip, started as a spin-off of animated media including the title character. Bugs Bunny first appeared as the villain in the 1938 theatrical short <i>Porky’s Hare Hunt.</i> He was named after its director, Ben “Bugs” Hardaway. The newspaper strip itself, as well as the comic book version, never reached the popularity of the theatrical animations or cartoons and was canceled in the 1970s.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Rabbits
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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.22527
label: catalog number
content: 22527
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: 49.5 cm x 65.8 cm; 19 1/2 in x 25 7/8 in