Color drawing of the comic book character Icon, owned by Dwayne McDuffie: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

A framed color drawing of the comic book character, Icon, owned by Dwayne McDuffie. The drawing has three distinct parts. The top features three futuristic scenes depicting a space ship crashing. The middle features three scenes depicting slavery and the Civil War. A newspaper with [SLAVE / AUCTION] on it is in the middle of the drawing. The bottom features three distinct scenes. They are of a woman in a photograph, a man getting shot and the characters Icon and Rocket in their costumes.

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: ca. 1993
• Produced by: Milestone Media, American, founded 1993
• Owned by: Dwayne McDuffie, American, 1962 - 2011
• Type: drawings
• Type: comic strips
• Medium: ink on paper, wood, glass
• Dimensions: H x W x D: 21 3/4 × 16 1/2 × 3/4 in. (55.2 × 41.9 × 1.9 cm)
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Art
• Topic: Comics and graphic novels
• Object number: 2019.96.27
• Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Charlotte (Fullerton) McDuffie
• Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture

Sources and reuse

Catalogue descriptions and facts adapted from National Museum of African American History and Culture through the Smithsonian's official Open Access dataset. This record explicitly marks its metadata CC0 1.0; formatting and selection have been changed. The underlying object's rights statement is: © Milestone Media LLC Permission required for use. Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.