Camera-ready comic art drawing for <i>Hi and Lois</i>
date: label: date made
content: 1966-05-08
name: label: graphic artist
content: Browne, Dik
label: graphic artist
content: Walker, Mort
label: publisher
content: King Features Syndicate
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This pen-and-ink drawing produced for the <i>Hi and Lois</i> comic strip shows Lois leaving baby Trixie with Hi while she runs some errands. Hi quickly falls asleep as Trixie proceeds to wreck the house.
label: Description (Brief)
content: Richard Arthur Allan "Dik" Browne (1917-1989) worked with the <i>New York Journal American</i> and <i>Newsweek,</i> and while he was serving in World War II launched his first comic strip, <i>Jinny Jeep.</i> In the 1950s Browne collaborated with Mort Walker on <i>Hi and Lois.</i> In 1973 Browne debuted another strip called <i>Hägar the Horrible</i> about an uncouth 9th-century Viking. Both of Browne’s strips are still running, and both are drawn by his sons.
label: Description (Brief)
content: <i>Hi and Lois</i> (1954- ) features a married couple and their suburban family, including four children. The couple first appeared in the <i>Beetle Bailey</i> comic strip. Lois is Beetle’s sister. Lois is shown taking a job as a real estate agent in 1980, as a nod to changing times.
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.22451
label: catalog number
content: 22451
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: 35.6 cm x 52.2 cm; 14 in x 20 9/16 in