Camera-ready comic art drawing for <i>Lolly</i>
date: label: date made
content: 1966-07-11
name: label: graphic artist
content: Hansen, Pete
label: publisher
content: Tribune Printing Company
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This pen-and-ink drawing produced for the <i>Lolly</i> comic strip shows the title character, who has taken a job as a secretary, making an initial spelling mistake in a letter she has prepared for her boss.
label: Description (Brief)
content: Per Ruse "Pete" Hansen (1920-1994) was born in Denmark and moved to the United States as a child. He began his comic art career as an artist at Disney Animation Studios in 1938. In the early 1950s, after leaving Disney, he began working on <i>Flapdoodles</i> and later, between 1955 and 1983, <i>Lolly,</i> Hansen’s best known strip. In the 1980s, after returning to Disney, Hansen wrote for their foreign publication strips.
label: Description (Brief)
content: <i>Lolly</i> (1955-1983) was a newspaper comic strip about a young, single woman who supported herself, her grandmother, and her younger brother, Pepper. The strip stood out in the 1950s because it featured a young girl as the family’s breadwinner. The strip appeared as a comic book series in the 1950s and 1960s.
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.22538
label: catalog number
content: 22538
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: 19 cm x 58.9 cm; 7 1/2 in x 23 3/16 in