Camera-ready comic art drawing for <i>Our Boarding House</i>
date: label: date made
content: 1971-11-16
name: label: graphic artist
content: Carroll, Les
label: author
content: McCormick, Tom
label: publisher
content: NEA, Inc.
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This pen-and-ink drawing prepared for the single-panel comic <i>Our Boarding House</i> shows Martha Hoople listening to ways to be more efficient with finances, even at the expense of further difficiencies in the quality of her service.
label: Description (Brief)
content: Les Carroll (around 1910- ) began his career as a background animator for Fleischer Studios in the 1930s. As a staff artist for the Newspaper Enterprise Association, he transitioned to comic book artwork, and then in 1945, he created his first syndicated comic strip, <i>The Tillers,</i> which ran until 1960. Afterward, Carroll took over the <i>Boots and her Buddies</i> strip after creator Abe Martin died. In 1971 Carroll began drawing <i>Our Boarding House,</i> which he continued until the end of the strip’s run in 1984.
label: Description (Brief)
content: <i>Our Boarding House</i> (1921-1984) was a daily panel comic starring Martha Hoople, who didn't accept any disrespectful behavior from her boarders. Creator Gene Ahern was known for his "screwball comedy" style of cartooning and writing. After a series of short-lived strips, he developed <i>Our Boarding House.</i> At about four months into the run, Major Hoople, Martha’s estranged husband, was introduced. Major Hoople was an irritable, old man whose stuffy attitude made for some of the strip’s most memorable scenes. He eventually became the most popular character in the strip, to the point where many people began referring to the strip by his name. Major Hoople was eventually adapted for a radio show and a comic book in 1943.
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: Joseph Gura, Jr. (through Carl Sandberg IV)
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2010.0081.112
label: accession number
content: 2010.0081
label: catalog number
content: 2010.0081.112
objectType: label: Object Name
content: drawing
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: ink (overall color)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 26.8 cm x 22.4 cm; 10 9/16 in x 8 13/16 in