Camera-ready comic art drawing for <i>Ferd'nand</i>
date: label: date made
content: 1966-08-24
name: label: graphic artist
content: Mikkelsen, Henning Dahl
label: publisher
content: United Feature Syndicate, Inc.
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This pen-and-ink drawing produced for the <i>Ferd’nand</i> comic strip shows the title character looking for his glasses. He cannot remember where he left them until he sits down to read the newspaper and realizes he's just broken them.
label: Description (Brief)
content: Henning Dahl Mikkelsen (1915-1982) was a Danish comic artist who worked in animation in Copenhagen and in filmmaking in London. In 1937 he created the <i>Ferd’nand</i> strip, which was syndicated in European and later American newspapers. Mikkelsen became an American citizen in 1954. He continued writing the strip until his death in 1982.
label: Description (Brief)
content: <i>Ferd’nand</i> (1937-2012) was first published in Copenhagen in 1937. It became syndicated and was first published in the United States in 1947. The characters in the strip included Ferd'nand, his wife, his son, and the family dog. The likable and extended strip also became popular with international readers because of its lack of dialogue.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Work and Industry: Graphic Arts
label: See more items in
content: Popular Entertainment
label: See more items in
content: Family & Social Life
label: See more items in
content: Cultures & Communities
label: See more items in
content: Comic Art
label: See more items in
content: Communications
label: See more items in
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.22641
label: catalog number
content: 22641
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: 12.9 cm x 40.1 cm; 5 1/16 in x 15 13/16 in