Camera-ready comic strip, entitled <i>Apartment 3-G</i>
date: label: date made
content: 1966-08-07
name: label: graphic artist
content: Kotzky, Alex
label: publisher
content: Publishers Newspapers Syndicate, Inc.
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This pen-and-ink drawing produced for the <i>Apartment 3-G</i> comic strip shows the characters discussing how much they miss Peter. A new neighbor, named Newton Figg, is just arriving to move into 3-B, across the hall. Figg raises some eyebrows because he’s arriving with two oversized, stuffed animals named Wilbur and Wendell.
label: Description (Brief)
content: Alex Kotzky(1923-1996), while an art student in New York in 1940, became an assistant at DC Comics. In the 1950s he worked for publishers Quality Comics and Ziff-Davis. During this time he also ghost-drew for comic strips such as <i>Steve Canyon</i> and <i>Big Ben Bolt.</i> In 1961 he and writer-psychiatrist Nick Dallis began producing <i>Apartment 3-G.</i>
label: Description (Brief)
content: <i>Apartment 3-G</i> (1961- ) portrayed the lives of three young women who live together: art teacher Lu Ann Powers, nurse Tommie Thompson, and Margo Magee (who over time held different jobs). The soap opera-style comic includes the interactions of the three young women and their friendly, fatherly neighbor Professor Aristotle Papagoras.
label: Location
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.22528
label: catalog number
content: 22528
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: 42 cm x 56.1 cm; 16 9/16 in x 22 1/16 in