Camera-ready comic strip, entitled Mr. Merryweather
date: label: date made
content: 06/19/1966
name: label: publisher
content: NEA, Inc.
label: graphic artist
content: Turner, Dick
notes: label: Description
content: Mr. Merryweather, created and drawn by Dick Turner (1909-1999), was a companion strip to his other comic, Carnival. The comic was distributed by the Newspaper Enterprise Association from 1940-1972. The comic was based on the humor and humiliations of everyday life in a small town. In this strip, Mr. Merryweather deals with restaurant culture in five individual gag-joke panels.
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: 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.22525
label: catalog number
content: 22525
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: 43.7 cm x 66.1 cm; 17 3/16 in x 26 in