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Percy Leo Crosby Skippy Comic Strip Original Illus
Percy Leo Crosby Skippy Comic Strip Original Illus
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Percy Leo Crosby Skippy Comic Strip Original Illustration Cartoon Newspaper Pen and Ink Drawing
  • Description:
    Percy Leo Crosby Skippy Comic Strip Original Illustration Cartoon Newspaper Pen and Ink Drawing from the Prestigious Charles L. Howard Collection.

    Original “Skippy” (Skippy Skinner) comic strip illustration with “Skippy” lower left with a gang of friends keeping pace with an angry man.
    Penciled caption below: Portrait of Suburbanite, who always says his house is ten minutes walk from the Station, trying to ease his conscience.
    Signed lower right, P. L. Crosby +/A. C. with Arthur Crawford stamp with NYC address lower left corner.

    Skippy was an American comic strip written and drawn by Percy Crosby that was published from 1923 to 1945. A highly popular, acclaimed and influential feature about rambunctious fifth-grader Skippy Skinner, his friends and his enemies.

    Percy Leo Crosby (1891 – 1964) was an American author, illustrator and cartoonist best known for his popular comic strip Skippy.
    A Brooklyn artist, life Magazine illustrator attended Art Student League Art, Pratt Institute and exhibited in London, New York, Paris and Rome and in permanent collections of several museums.

    Winning bidder will receive a Certificate of Authenticity with the drawing.

  • Approx. Dimensions or Size: 21 by 16.50 inches cropped margins, 14.25 by 18.75 overall.
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  • Estimated Weight of Package: 7 lbs.
  • Package size: 26 x 26 x 2

    Cons./Inv. Code: The present lot is inventory number Clh 572 in the Charles L. Howard Collection, one of two hundred lots that will be continuously added to this online catalogue on a daily basis between today and the day of sale. The first 100 to 125 lots will be Important Original Illustration Art and the second 100 to 125 lots are comprised of Original Railroad Art. Please check our listings regularly during the coming days for many exciting discoveries.
    Low & High Ests: 800 / 1000 Starting Bid: 100
  • Condition
    Corner separation upper left, smaller corner loss lower left, paper has browned with age with some light smudges and barely noticeable horizontal and vertical acid burn lines for other paper laid on top. Additionally, the state of preservation of these original illustration drawings that are on average over 65 years old is quite exceptional. Very, very few have any creases, tears or losses to the paper and the ink has remained uniformly vivid thanks to the family’s dry flat storage. Given that these were working drawings from which prints were made the expected edge annotations, highlighting, inscriptions, pasted labels, tack holes, staples, glue residues and scattered corrections can be found variously on the examples as illustrated in the photographs. These all add to the authenticity and immediacy of the Wartime newsroom and pressroom atmosphere, serving to reinforce the iconic status of these rare surviving testimonies to the political illustrator’s art. In a few examples additional notations have been made in the description section of the catalogue text for significant damage, however the condition sensitive collector is encouraged to contact our sale expert for additional lot details in advance of the auction date.
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    Percy Leo Crosby Skippy Comic Strip Original Illus

    Estimate $800 - $1,000
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    Starting Price $100
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