Camera-ready comic art drawing for <i>Tarzan</i>
date: label: date made
content: 1966-08-28
name: label: author
content: Burroughs, Edgar Rice
label: graphic artist
content: Celardo, John
label: publisher
content: United Feature Syndicate, Inc.
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This pen-and-ink drawing prepared for the <i>Tarzan</i> comic strip shows Tarzan completing a mission and getting word of another call for help in the Akamba Village, where a fire has broken out and the tribe is battling against the addictive use of Zakara leaves—“the dream weed.”
label: Description (Brief)
content: John Celardo (1918-2012) started his career drawing for the Staten Island Zoo. After World War II he drew for comic books through various publishing houses. In the 1950s and 1960s Celardo drew the <i>Tarzan</i> comic strip, and in the late 1960s was given the <i>Tales of the Green Beret.</i> For two decades, starting in the 1970s, Celardo was the comic strip editor for King Features Syndicate. He also began drawing <i>Buz Sawyer</i> in the 1980s.
label: Description (Brief)
content: <i>Tarzan</i> (1929-1972) was a comic strip based on the popular title character, who first appeared in the 1912 novel <i>Tarzan of the Apes</i> by Edgar Rice Burroughs. Along with its film and comic book spin-offs, the story was also adapted as a comic strip, which premiered in 1929. The comic strip storyline closely followed that of the novel, showing British-born Tarzan surviving in the African jungle and being raised by apes. As in the novel, Tarzan grows up to meet and fall in love with a stranded American girl, Jane Porter.
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: Newspaper Comics Council, Inc., New York, NY
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: GA.22466
label: catalog number
content: 22466
label: accession number
content: 277502
objectType: label: Object Name
content: drawing
label: Object Type
content: Cartoon
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: 42.1 cm x 61 cm; 16 9/16 in x 24 in