This collection is located onsite.
This small collection includes four of Stanley's hard-to-find thumbnail scripts as well as the original Tripp art for a dozen Little Lulu stories. Tracings reveal sketches for covers as well as Disney characters. There is also a small amount of correspondence, a photograph of a very young Tripp at his drawing table, sketches of Hanna-Barbera and Terrytoons characters, and much more, all of which reveal the range of Tripp's career.
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This collection is located onsite.
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Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Irving Tripp Papers; Box and Folder; Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Library
Gift of Linda Tripp Corbin, Robert Tripp, William Tripp, and Steven Tripp.
Columbia University Libraries, Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Irving Tripp, (1921-1999) a New York State native, began working as a comic book artist at Dell Comics in 1941. After the war, he returned to Dell as a staff artist, staying until 1982. While he worked on licensed properties such as Tom and Jerry, Bugs Bunny, and Disney adaptations, he was best known as the artist working with writer John Stanley on "Little Lulu." Lulu had begun as a newspaper strip written and drawn by Marge Buell, but Stanley and Tripp oversaw the successful transition of the character to comic books.
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