Camera-ready comic art drawing for <i>Big George</i>
date: label: date made
content: 1964-05-08
name: label: graphic artist
content: Partch, Virgil
label: publisher
content: Publishers Newspapers Syndicate, Inc.
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This pen-and-ink drawing produced for the single-panel daily comic <i>Big George</i> shows George learning how to play the ukulele using the key-tuning phrase “My Dog Has Fleas.”
label: Description (Brief)
content: Virgil Franklin "Vip" Partch (1916-1984) began his career in 1937 illustrating for Walt Disney Studios. He is known for his participation in the 1941 Disney animators’ strike, and as a result of his participation, never returned to work for the company. Before his service in the U.S. Army Partch assisted Walter Lantz on the <i>Woody Woodpecker</i> cartoons. This prewar work assisted his transfer to his position as the art director and cartoonist for the weekly military magazine <i>Panorama.</i> After he left the army, Partch began freelancing and published books containing single-panel cartoons. In 1960 he created <i>Big George,</i> the strip that became his biggest success.
label: Description (Brief)
content: <i>Big George</i> (1960-1990) was a comic strip featuring family humor. The title character, much like other comic-strip husbands, was often neglected or ridiculed by the rest of his family. The daily version of the comic was usually shown in a single-panel format, but with the debut of the Sunday page a few years later, in the early 1960s, it took on a more traditional strip form. Partch died unexpectedly in 1984 as a result of a car crash.
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: Comic Art
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content: Communications
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Joseph Gura, Jr. (through Carl Sandberg IV)
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2010.0081.399
label: accession number
content: 2010.0081
label: catalog number
content: 2010.0081.399
objectType: label: Object Name
content: drawing
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: ink (overall color)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 22.8 cm x 29.5 cm; 8 31/32 in x 11 5/8 in