Camera-ready comic art drawing for <i>Moose</i>
date: label: date made
content: 1966-06-23
name: label: graphic artist
content: Weber, Bob
label: publisher
content: King Features Syndicate
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This pen-and-ink drawing prepared for the <i>Moose</i> comic strip shows the title character losing his new job before it even starts, as his demonstrated laziness makes his would-be boss reconsider the job offer.
label: Description (Brief)
content: Bob Weber Sr. (1934- ) worked as an illustrator in 1959 for both <i>The Saturday Evening Post</i> and the <i>Laff-a-Day</i> panels. Soon afterward he began assisting Dick Cavalli with the <i>Winthrop</i> newspaper strip and then debuted his own strip <i>Moose</i> in 1965.
label: Description (Brief)
content: <i>Moose</i> (1965- ), the lethargic title character, was a husband who was generally out of work. The domestic humor of the strip depended on Moose's exchanges with his family members and friends. A long-running gag in the strip saw Moose taking a new job almost every day, and borrowing from his friends in between jobs. Characters Moose and Molly have three children, one of whom seems to take after his father. In 1998 the name of the strip was changed to <i>Moose and Molly</i> to acknowledge Molly’s expanded role in the strip.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Workers
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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.22404
label: catalog number
content: 22404
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: 13.9 cm x 44.7 cm; 5 1/2 in x 17 5/8 in