JEFF MACNELLY (1948 2000) Shoe and Lucille

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Sale 2690 - Lot 75

Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500

JEFF MACNELLY (1948-2000)
Shoe and Lucille.

Three original Shoe comic strips, 1978. 120x350 mm; 4⅝x13¾ inches (each), matted and framed to 16¾x18⅛ inches (overall). Signed "MacNelly" and dated on each strip: April 29, May 17, and May 20. Printed on label attached to each strip: © Jefferson Communications, Inc. 1978. Distributed by C.T.N.Y.N.S. Inscription in upper left margin: "To Lucille - from P. Martin Shoemaker. 9/78."

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The strip's namesake, P. Martin Shoemaker, is based on North Carolina journalist Jim Shumaker, Jeff MacNelly's first newspaper boss. P. Martin Shoemaker is a grouchy, cigar-smoking, newspaperbird with a tough side and an even tougher other side.

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