Camera-ready comic art drawing for <i>Gil Thorp</i>
date: label: date made
content: 1966-06-07
name: label: graphic artist
content: Berrill, Jack
label: publisher
content: Tribune Printing Company
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This pen-and-ink drawing produced for the <i>Gil Thorp</i> comic strip shows Coach Thorp trying to encourage Ziggy to stay on the team despite Ziggy's concern that he brings bad luck to the games.
label: Description (Brief)
content: John A. "Jack" Berrill (1923-1996) began his art career as a copy boy for the art department at the <i>New York Daily News</i> in 1941. He then assisted cartoonist Martin Branner on <i>Winnie Winkle.</i> After World War II Berrill began working on the <i>Famous Funnies</i> comic books. In 1958, inspired by his two sports heroes, football player Jim Thorp and baseball player Gil Hodges, Berrill developed a strip about a high school athletics coach named Gil Thorp. Berrill drew the strip until his health forced him to turn the work over to assistants in 1994.
label: Description (Brief)
content: <i>Gil Thorp</i> (1958- ) is a comic strip concerning a retired athlete who coaches high school students. The strip is focused on high school students and themes about competitive squabbles and dating, as well as more serious topics such as teen pregnancy and drug abuse. In the 1970s Thorp began dating a physical education teacher named Mimi. The two later married and started a family with two children.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Sports
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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.22379
label: catalog number
content: 22379
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: ink (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 18.5 cm x 58.5 cm; 7 5/16 in x 23 1/16 in