Camera-ready comic art drawing for Moose

This pen-and-ink drawing prepared for the Moose comic strip shows the title character losing his new job before it even starts, as his demonstrated laziness makes his would-be boss reconsider the job offer.

Bob Weber Sr. (1934- ) worked as an illustrator in 1959 for both The Saturday Evening Post and the Laff-a-Day panels. Soon afterward he began assisting Dick Cavalli with the Winthrop newspaper strip and then debuted his own strip Moose in 1965.

Moose (1965- ), the lethargic title character, was a husband who was generally out of work. The domestic humor of the strip depended on Moose's exchanges with his family members and friends. A long-running gag in the strip saw Moose taking a new job almost every day, and borrowing from his friends in between jobs. Characters Moose and Molly have three children, one of whom seems to take after his father. In 1998 the name of the strip was changed to Moose and Molly to acknowledge Molly’s expanded role in the strip.

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