Camera-ready comic art drawing for <i>Eek & Meek</i>
date: label: date made
content: 1966-09-21
name: label: publisher
content: NEA, Inc.
label: graphic artist
content: Schneider, Howie
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This pen-and-ink drawing produced for the <i>Eek and Meek</i> comic strip shows Meek getting on a soapbox and giving a speech about economic inflation and making a pun about “passing the buck.”
label: Description (Brief)
content: Howard Adolph "Howie" Schneider (1930-2007) created the popular <i>Eek and Meek</i> comic strip in 1965. In 2000, after the conclusion of <i>Eek and Meek,</i> he became the editorial cartoonist for the <i>Provincetown Banner,</i> and created a weekly comic called <i>Unshucked</i> as well as a daily strip called <i>The Sunshine Club.</i>
label: Description (Brief)
content: <i>Eek and Meek</i> (1965-2000) told the story of two mice with opposing characteristics. Eek was disheveled and aggressive. Meek was gentle and secretly loved a female mouse named Monique. During the life of the strip the two began to be drawn with more human characteristics. The final strip ran in March 2000 with the marriage of Meek and Monique.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Animals
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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.22436
label: catalog number
content: 22436
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: 14.2 cm x 47.5 cm; 5 9/16 in x 18 11/16 in