Camera-ready comic art drawing for <i>Nancy</i>
date: label: date made
content: 1966-08-26
name: label: graphic artist
content: Bushmiller, Ernie
label: publisher
content: United Feature Syndicate, Inc.
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This pen-and-ink drawing prepared for the <i>Nancy</i> comic strip shows the title character finding a chair in a tree, and discovering that Sluggo has put it there anticipating a new drive-in theater.
label: Description (Brief)
content: Ernest Paul Bushmiller Jr. (1905-1982) dropped out of school at an early age to start work as a copyboy for the <i>New York World.</i> In 1925 artist Larry Whittington ask him to take over <i>Fritzi Ritz,</i> a comic strip about a young, affluent actress. When Bushmiller took over the strip, he introduced Fritzi’s niece, Nancy, whose popularity resulted in a change in the comic strip title to <i>Nancy</i> in 1938. Bushmiller also worked on a spin-off cartoon called <i>Phil Fumble,</i> about Fritzi’s boyfriend.
label: Description (Brief)
content: The comic strip <i>Nancy</i> (1938- ) came about because of a retitling of its predecessor <i>Fritzi Ritz.</i> By 1938 the character Nancy had superseded the character Fritzi’s popularity, and the focus of the strip shifted to Nancy and her friend Sluggo. In time additional characters were added to the cast, including Sluggo’s irritable neighbor, Mr. McOnion, and Oona Goosepimple, a girl who lived in a haunted house.
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.22359
label: catalog number
content: 22359
label: accession number
content: 277502
objectType: label: Object Name
content: drawing
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: 16.7 cm x 51.2 cm; 6 9/16 in x 20 3/16 in