Steve Canyon. Permitame presentar a la Senorita--Cheetah – Historic Print
![Steve Canyon. Permitame presentar a la Senorita--Cheetah, 1963 Oct. 3 [publication date] — historic drawing](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/ac/aced5bfb5763-L.webp)
(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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Steve Canyon. Permitame presentar a la Senorita--Cheetah comes to life in this historic drawing, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Steve Canyon. Permitame presentar a la Senorita--Cheetah
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Caniff's Steve Canyon strip carried this 1963 installment, whose Spanish-language caption, "Permítame presentar a la Señorita," translates to "Allow me to introduce Miss Cheetah." The line is a stock showman's introduction, and the subjects assigned to the drawing, burlesque, seduction, and relations between the sexes, reflect the adult tone Caniff brought to the strip in the 1960s. The original art was made in ink and white-out over pencil, with paste-ons added by hand, a method that let the artist revise and insert elements before the strip was reproduced. The drawing was later shown in the Library of Congress exhibition *The Art of the Comic Strip* and in a 1990 touring show of comics history at a children's museum.
| Created / published | 1963 Oct. 3 [publication date] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 drawing : ink and white out over pencil with paste-ons. |
| Genre | Lied Discovery Children's Museum, 1990; Featuring the Funnies: One Hundred Years of the Comic Strip |
| Notes | (DLC/PP-1992:227.155). Exhibited in The Art of the Comic Strip |
| Subjects | Burlesque shows--1960-1970. Cheetahs--1960-1970. Seduction--1960-1970. Relations between the sexes--1960-1970. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,096 × 3,257 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-190214 |
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