Camera-ready comic art drawing for <i>Hubert</i>
date: label: date made
content: 1966-09-07
name: label: graphic artist
content: Wingert, Dick
label: publisher
content: King Features Syndicate
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This pen-and-ink drawing produced for the <i>Hubert</i> comic strip shows the title character suspecting his wife of cheating at Checkers because she knocked over the Checkers table while she was sneezing.
label: Description (Brief)
content: Richard C. "Dick" Wingert (1919-1993) studied art in Indianapolis beginning in 1937. His career began as an artist for the U.S. Army newspaper <i>Stars and Stripes,</i> where his single comic character, a simple soldier named Hubert, was debuted. The character's wife, children, and dog were included in the story of his later civilian life. Wingert drew the strip until 1992.
label: Description (Brief)
content: <i>Hubert</i> (1942-1994), a single-panel comic strip concerning an ordinary soldier, was produced for <i>Stars and Stripes.</i> After the war the title character became a civilian and went back to everyday life, with its repetitious, disagreeable, and unsatisfying components.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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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: 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.22439
label: catalog number
content: 22439
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: 15.3 cm x 47.2 cm; 6 in x 18 9/16 in