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AL CAPP.
Li’l Abner.
4 (2 or 3 panels each) pen and ink drawings
for the famous daily comic strip syndicated
by NewYork News Inc., October 10, 13,
14 and 15, 1970. Each 140x480 mm;
5
1
/
2
x18
3
/
4
inches. Signed in full on the last
panel of each strip. Each drawing with
preliminary pencil sketches on the verso.
[1,200/1,800]
This sequence parodies the Counter Culture,
here renamed the “Backwoodstock Folk,”
under the leadership of “Abbie Hoffwit.”
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TONY CHEN.
Arriving in Africa/Chucka-chuck, chucka-cheek.
Watercolor and ink on paper. 230x565 mm; 9x21
3
/
4
inches. Double-page illustration for
Wendy Kesselman’s There’s a Train Going by MyWindow. Signed in full lower right with
copyright 1981. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1982.With publisher’s label affixed to verso.
[1,000/1,500]
The watercolor was cropped when reproduced in the picture book.A graduate of Pratt Institute,
Tony Chen was art director of Newsweek and a prolific illustrator of children’s books in a
wide variety of media.
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