Object Details
- Description (Brief)
- This pen-and-ink drawing produced for the Hi and Lois comic strip shows Lois leaving baby Trixie with Hi while she runs some errands. Hi quickly falls asleep as Trixie proceeds to wreck the house.
- Richard Arthur Allan "Dik" Browne (1917-1989) worked with the New York Journal American and Newsweek, and while he was serving in World War II launched his first comic strip, Jinny Jeep. In the 1950s Browne collaborated with Mort Walker on Hi and Lois. In 1973 Browne debuted another strip called Hägar the Horrible about an uncouth 9th-century Viking. Both of Browne’s strips are still running, and both are drawn by his sons.
- Hi and Lois (1954- ) features a married couple and their suburban family, including four children. The couple first appeared in the Beetle Bailey comic strip. Lois is Beetle’s sister. Lois is shown taking a job as a real estate agent in 1980, as a nod to changing times.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- graphic artist
- Browne, Dik
- Walker, Mort
- publisher
- King Features Syndicate
- date made
- 1966-05-08
- Credit Line
- Newspaper Comics Council, Inc., New York, NY
- Physical Description
- paper (overall material)
- ink (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 35.6 cm x 52.2 cm; 14 in x 20 9/16 in
- Object Name
- drawing
- Object Type
- Drawings
- Other Terms
- drawing; Pen and Ink
