Good-bye, Mr. Lovelace!
Date1935
Artist
Franklin Osborne Alexander
American cartoonist, 1897–1993
Illustration Citation"Hairbreadth Harry." Syndicated: appeared in The Evening Courier (Urbana, IL), December 30, 1935.
MediumInk on illustration board
Dimensionssheet: 5 3/4 × 22 1/8 in. (14.6 × 56.2 cm)
Credit LineGift of Helen Farr Sloan, 1987
Object number1987-48
On View
Not on viewClassificationsDRAWING
Label TextFranklin Osborne Alexander studied at the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts and then served with the Camouflage Engineers during World War I. He created two comic strips - Finney of the Force and The Featherheads - for the United Features Syndicate before becoming the staff political cartoonist for the Philadelphia Bulletin in 1941. During his 26 years there, he drew the strip featuring the everyman character Joe Doakes.
