Object Details
- graphic artist
- Hanan, Harry
- publisher
- News Syndicate Co., Inc.
- Description (Brief)
- This pen-and-ink drawing produced for the Louie comic strip shows the title character frustrated with cooking. He misses his wife until she comes home and starts to scold him for leaving a messy kitchen, after which he starts to wish she was back on vacation.
- Harry Hanan (1916-1982) was a British comic artist who started his illustrating career at the Liverpool Evening Express. After World War II he became a cartoonist for London's The People, in which his strip Louie was first published in 1947. The strip, without a script, was syndicated internationally.
- Louie (1947-1976) was a domestic comedy strip about a short, ordinary, middle-aged man and his wife. The character Louie was often seen being frustrated while grinning and bearing everything silently, without a script, throughout the run.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Newspaper Comics Council, Inc., New York, NY
- 1965-07-25
- ID Number
- GA.22598
- catalog number
- 22598
- accession number
- 277502
- Object Name
- drawing
- Object Type
- Drawings
- Other Terms
- drawing; Pen and Ink
- Physical Description
- paper (overall material)
- ink (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 40.7 cm x 57.1 cm; 16 in x 22 1/2 in
- See more items in
- Work and Industry: Graphic Arts
- Popular Entertainment
- Family & Social Life
- Cultures & Communities
- Comic Art
- Communications
- Art
- National Museum of American History
- Record ID
- nmah_799554
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a6-17a5-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
