Smokey Stover
date: label: date made
content: 9/8/1963
label: date made
content: 09/08/1963
name: label: graphic artist
content: Holman, Bill
label: publisher
content: News Syndicate Co., Inc.
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Original pen and ink “camera ready” drawing for the Smokey Stover comic strip (1935-1972) by Bill Holman (1903-1987) dated September 8, 1963.
label: Description (Brief)
content: This strip shows Smokey (short for Smokestack, the fireman) talking with his colleague (Chief Cash U. Nutt) about his wife, Cookie’s, home repair abilities, but when he goes home to collect his bugle his wife demonstrates her latest achievement, using the bugle to assist her emergency plumbing job.
label: Description (Brief)
content: Bill Holman (1903-1987) hailed from Indiana where he signed up for the Landon School of Illustration and Cartooning in his teenage years. After moving to Chicago with his mother he also took courses at the Academy of Fine Arts and learned his trade from Carl Ed, another cartoon artist. During his career he worked with newspapers and newspaper syndication services in Chicago, Cleveland, and New York.
label: Description (Brief)
content: Smokey Stover was a vehicle for situational humor centered on word puns and silly statements. One of the word puns used by Smokey related to his job as firefighter, which he called a foo fighter. The term and illustrations of Smokey had a second life as nose art for World War II bombers.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Work and Industry: Graphic Arts
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content: Cultures & Communities
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content: Communications
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.22555
label: catalog number
content: 22555
label: accession number
content: 277502
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Drawing
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: 31.4 cm x 67.5 cm; 12 3/8 in x 26 9/16 in