Object Details
- Description (Brief)
- This pen-and-ink drawing produced for the Abbie an’ Slats comic strip shows Kit trying to irritate Miss Abbie by proposing to host a party and to demolish Miss Abbie’s apartment.
- Raeburn Van Buren (1891-1987) started his career as a freelance illustrator for magazines such as Life and The Saturday Evening Post. He quickly became one of the country’s most recognized magazine illustrators and eventually began drawing for Esquire and The New Yorker as well. In 1937 fellow artist Al Capp approached Van Buren with an offer to draw Capp's new comic strip, Abbie an’ Slats. Van Buren drew the strip until his retirement in 1971.
- Abbie an’ Slats (1937-1971) was a story about a young orphaned boy from New York, Slats, who goes to live in the country with a spinster cousin named Abbie. Slats is headstrong and rebellious, and often disagrees with Abbie and her straight-laced sister, Sally.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- graphic artist
- Van Buren, Raeburn
- publisher
- United Feature Syndicate, Inc.
- graphic artist
- Capp, Al
- date made
- 1966-08-23
- Credit Line
- Newspaper Comics Council, Inc., New York, NY
- Physical Description
- paper (overall material)
- ink (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 17.8 cm x 53.4 cm; 7 in x 21 in
- Object Name
- drawing
- Object Type
- Drawings
- Other Terms
- drawing; Pen and Ink
