Camera-ready comic art drawing for <i>Dotty</i>
date: label: date made
content: 1966-09-12
name: label: graphic artist
content: Tune, Buford
label: publisher
content: Publishers Newspapers Syndicate, Inc.
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This pen-and-ink drawing produced for the <i>Dotty Dripple</i> comic strip shows the title character’s son rushing back to college, leaving her with empty-nest syndrome.
label: Description (Brief)
content: Buford Tune (1906-1989) started working as an assistant to the art editor of the <i>New York Post</i> in 1927. One of his first assignments was to revive an old family comic strip called <i>Doings of the Duffs.</i> After a brief hiatus Tune returned to comic strip production in 1931. He created <i>Dotty Dripple</i> in 1944.
label: Description (Brief)
content: <i>Dotty Dripple</i> (1944-1974) was a domestic humor-themed comic strip like the popular <i>Blondie</i> strip. Dottie was described as a typical housewife responsible for her children, Taffy and Wilbert; her dog, Pepper; and her husband, Horace. Part of the running humor of the strip was that Horace was often seen behaving like a child himself. Between 1946 and 1955 the strip was also sold in comic book form by Harvey Comics.
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: Cultures & Communities
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content: Comic Art
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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.22530
label: catalog number
content: 22530
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: 13.9 cm x 42.1 cm; 5 1/2 in x 16 9/16 in