Gasoline alley. I cut off Judy's head ... / King. – Historic Reproduction
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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This rare historic drawing captures Gasoline alley. I cut off Judy's head ... / King. in remarkable detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Gasoline alley. I cut off Judy's head ... / King.
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Few drawings from this period capture the strip's craft as directly as this one, with its India ink laid over pencil, scraped-out corrections, and a pasted-on piece. The caption, "I cut off Judy's head," is lettered into the sheet itself, a reminder that comic artists of the 1930s worked by hand and revised as they went. Frank King launched *Gasoline Alley* in 1918 and let its characters age in real time, so by the mid-1930s the strip followed a settled domestic world, where children and household gadgets like the radio were part of everyday life.
| Medium | 1 drawing : India ink over graphite underdrawing with scraping out and paste-on ; 17 x 58.5 cm. (sheet) |
|---|---|
| Notes | c1935 Aug. |
| Subjects | Children--1930-1940. Radios--1930-1940. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 5,724 × 3,607 px · prints to 19 × 12 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-226175 |
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