Camera-ready comic art drawing for <i>Marmaduke</i>
date: label: date made
content: 1963-04-22
name: label: graphic artist
content: Anderson, Brad
label: maker
content: United Feature Syndicate, Inc.
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This pen-and-ink drawing produced for the <i>Marmaduke</i> single-panel daily comic strip shows the Great Dane upset because Phil Winslow, his owner, has put ice in his daughter Barbara’s water, but not in his own water.
label: Description (Brief)
content: Brad Anderson (1924- ) began his career as a comic artist selling some of his cartoon art to an aviation magazine while still in high school. After college and four years' service in the U.S. Navy, Anderson began working in advertising and prepared freelance drawings for magazine cartoons in 1953. His creation <i>Marmaduke</i> was debuted in newspapers across the country in 1954. Today Anderson continues to draw <i>Marmaduke</i> with the help of his son.
label: Description (Brief)
content: <i>Marmaduke</i> (1954- ) is a newspaper daily panel and Sunday comic strip. The title character is a Great Dane belonging to the Winslow family, including husband and wife, Phil and Dottie, and two children, Barbara and Billy. The running theme involves the human characteristics of the title character, which contribute to the household's general unease and confusion.
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: Joseph Gura, Jr. (through Carl Sandberg IV)
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2010.0081.009
label: accession number
content: 2010.0081
label: catalog number
content: 2010.0081.009
objectType: label: Object Name
content: drawing
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: ink (overall color)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 22 cm x 24.6 cm; 8 21/32 in x 9 11/16 in