Winnie Winkle
date: label: date made
content: 5/29/1930
name: label: graphic artist
content: Branner, Martin
label: publisher
content: Tribune Printing Company
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Original pen and ink “camera ready” drawing for the Winnie Winkle comic strip (1920-1996) by Martin Branner (1920-1962) dated May 29, 1930.
label: Description (Brief)
content: This comic shows Winnie being introduced to the executives of the pin industry who she inadvertently calls “pin heads.”
label: Description (Brief)
content: Martin (Mike) Branner (1920-1970) wrote Winnie Winkle for more than 40 years. Beginning his career as a vaudeville performer, Branner turned to comic art production after World War I. After two other strips he began writing Winnie Winkle, originally and until 1943, Winnie Winkle, the Breadwinner. His wife Edith served as his inspiration.
label: Description (Brief)
content: Winnie Winkle was an American comic strip noted for its description of women in their changing roles as working women. Winnie was portrayed in many occupations including as a worker in the fashion business.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Work and Industry: Graphic Arts
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.22319
label: catalog number
content: 22319
label: accession number
content: 277502
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Drawing
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: 17.2 cm x 58.6 cm; 6 3/4 in x 23 1/16 in