Abie the agent,Hershfield,c1930,12 panel comic strip

Title: Abie the agent. And you've enrolled with the militia? / Hershfield.
Creator(s): Hershfield, Harry, 1885-1974, artist
Date Created/Published: c1930.
Summary: Twelve-panel comic strip shows Abie enrolled in the militia. When he reports for winter camp maneuvers, he is assigned to night guard duty in a blinding snow storm. Abie finally gives up and returns to bed. When his superior asks why he is not on guard, Abie explains, 'Because it's silly = who'd be out on a night like this??' Abie, the Agent was drawn from 1914 to 1940 by Harry Hershfield, a noted humorous writer, radio personality, and toastmaster. The strip was the first to have a sympathetic Jewish main character. Abe Kabible was an auto salesman or 'agent,' and he worked diligently to improve his lot in life. Hershfield poked gentle fun at Abie and his convoluted language, a mixture of tangled grammar and Yiddish expressions.
Notes:
Section title from item.
Date stamped on mount: Dec 14 1930.
Copyright 1930, Int'l Feature Service, Inc., Great Britain rights reserved.
Forms part of: Art Wood Collection of Caricature and Cartoon (Library of Congress).
Unprocessed in WOOD/Comics/Hershfield
Sources: World encyclopedia of comics, p. 66; 100 years of American newspaper comics; Encyclopedia of American comics, p. 1 ljr
Subjects:
Military life--United States--1930.
Guards--United States--1930.
Comics--1930.
Ink drawings--1930.
Bookmark /2004672433/
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