Camera-ready comic art drawing for <i>Gasoline Alley</i>
date: label: date made
content: 1966-08-13
name: label: graphic artist
content: Moores, Dick
label: graphic artist
content: King, Frank
label: publisher
content: Tribune Printing Company
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This pen-and-ink drawing, prepared for the <i>Gasoline Alley</i> newspaper comic strip, shows character Walt Wallet being scolded for trying to walk Effie home. She waves goodbye, but Wallet sees little hope in her attentions.
label: Description (Brief)
content: Richard Arnold "Dick" Moores (1909-1986) worked as an assistant to Chester Gould on the <i>Dick Tracy</i> comic strip early in his career. Moores continued to work on other strips and branched out into animation and comic book illustration, working on titles such as <i>Mickey Mouse,</i> <i>Scamp,</i> <i>Donald Duck,</i> and <i>Alice in Wonderland.</i> In 1956 Frank King asked Moores to assist on the daily strip <i>Gasoline Alley,</i> which Moores took over completely after King’s retirement in 1959. When the Sunday artist for <i>Gasoline Alley</i> retired in 1975, Moores took over that work as well, and continued drawing the strip until his death in 1986.
label: Description (Brief)
content: <i>Gasoline Alley</i> (1918- ) originated on a black-and-white Sunday page for <i>The Chicago Tribune</i> called <i>The Rectangle,</i> a collaborative page with contributions by different artists. One corner of "The Rectangle," drawn by Frank King, was devoted to the discussions between four men about their cars, an impetus for the name of the strip <i>Gasoline Alley.</i> Within a year the strip began appearing in the daily newspapers. <i>Gasoline Alley,</i> whose original characters included Walt, Doc, Avery, Bill, and Skeezix, is noted for its use of characters who have continued to age naturally.
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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.22550
label: catalog number
content: 22550
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: 18.5 cm x 54.8 cm; 7 5/16 in x 21 9/16 in