Object Details
- graphic artist
- Johnson, Ferd
- publisher
- News Syndicate Co., Inc.
- Description (Brief)
- This pen-and-ink drawing prepared for the Moon Mullins comic strip shows Mullins going to a therapist because he's being seen as procrastinating at work. The session is unsuccessful, however, as Mullins persists in his easygoing work habits. Included in this story board is Ferd Johnson's "topper" strip Kitty Higgins, about the young and clever girl who later became a Moon Mullins character.
- Ferdinand "Ferd" Johnson (1905-1996) took a job in 1923 assisting on Frank Willard's new comic strip Moon Mullins. In 1925 Johnson started drawing his own Sunday comic called Texas Slim, and a few years later he launched Lovey-Dovey. In 1958 Johnson took over Moon Mullins which he continued until its cancellation in 1991.
- Moon Mullins (1923-1991) was about a hard-living, would-be prizefighter nicknamed Moon. The strip offered storylines and personality characteristics which were appealing to readers during the Prohibition era. Moon Mullins was reinterpreted as a radio show and was regularly included as an animated television presentation on the 1970s Saturday morning cartoon program Archie’s TV Funnies.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Newspaper Comics Council, Inc., New York, NY
- 1961-10-22
- ID Number
- GA.22589
- catalog number
- 22589
- 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: 43.4 cm x 62.3 cm; 17 1/16 in x 24 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_799645
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a5-c92c-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
