Camera-ready comic art drawing for <i>Brick Bradford</i>
date: label: date made
content: 1966-07-10
name: label: graphic artist
content: Norris, Paul
label: publisher
content: King Features Syndicate
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This pen-and-ink drawing produced for the <i>Brick Bradford</i> comic strip shows Hoppy beginning to drown at the base of a waterfall because his power pack has failed. The title character saves him, and they quickly realize that the rescue airship is nearby but cannot see them. Brick leaves to get its attention.
label: Description (Brief)
content: Paul Leroy Norris (1914-2007) began working as an illustrator and cartoonist in the late 1930s when he was hired by the <i>Dayton Daily News.</i> During the next decade Norris started developing comic books. In the 1940s he launched the short-lived undersea adventure comic <i>Aquaman.</i> After World War II Norris continued drawing for comic books and comic strips. He began working on the <i>Brick Bradford</i> dailies in 1952, and when creator Clarence Gray died in 1957 Norris took over the Sunday strip as well, and produced both until his retirement in 1987.
label: Description (Brief)
content: <i>Brick Bradford</i> (1933-1987) tells the fantastic tales of a space-age adventurer who encounters alien creatures from other worlds. Cocreator William Ritt heavily influenced the strip’s subjects with his interests in classical mythology and modern science.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Space Travel
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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.22577
label: catalog number
content: 22577
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: 43.7 cm x 39.7 cm; 17 3/16 in x 15 5/8 in