Camera-ready comic art drawing for <i>Short Ribs</i>
date: label: date made
content: 1966-04-17
name: label: graphic artist
content: O'Neal, Frank
label: publisher
content: NEA, Inc.
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This pen-and-ink drawing prepared for the <i>Short Ribs</i> comic strip shows the wedding of Gert and a younger, attractive man who appears to have been the victim of a spell.
label: Description (Brief)
content: Frank O’Neal (1921-1986) sold his first cartoon to the <i>Saturday Evening Post</i> in 1950. In 1958 he debuted his <i>Short Ribs</i> comic strip and continued to draw the strip until 1973. His assistant, Frank Hill, then took over the strip and O’Neal spent the rest of his career creating advertising art.
label: Description (Brief)
content: <i>Short Ribs</i> (1958-1982) was a strip without a regular cast or a continuous setting. With some frequency, however, the strip took place in a castle in Medieval Europe. Other locations included Ancient Egypt or the American West. The storylines regularly made references to 20th-century events.
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 Inc., New York, NY
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: GA.22568
label: catalog number
content: 22568
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: 44.6 cm x 60.8 cm; 17 9/16 in x 23 15/16 in