This pen-and-ink drawing produced for the <i>Archie</i> comic strip shows Veronica hosting a party and suggesting to Archie that he and Jughead can later sleep on the couch, which turns into a bed. Archie suggests to Jug that pressing the button for the foldout couch will also provide him food.
Robert William "Bob" Montana (1920-1975), in his youth, drew caricatures of customers in his father’s restaurant in New Hampshire. Later he became a freelance illustrator and at age twenty-one, in the 1940s, Montana created and started drawing <i>Archie</i> for the comic book series <i>Pep Comics,</i> and soon after the <i>Archie</i> comic strip. Montana drew the daily and Sunday <i>Archie</i> strips as well as <i>Archie</i> comic books until his death in 1975.
<i>Archie</i> (1947- ) is said to have been based on the 1930s and 1940s Andy Hardy movies, such as <i>A Family Affair</i> and <i>Love Finds Andy Hardy.</i> Even though the comic subject was originally included as filler in the publication called <i>Pep Comics,</i> which included mostly superhero stories, after about a year <i>Archie</i> appeared on the comic book cover. <i>Archie</i> was syndicated in newspapers across the country beginning in 1947. The subject was also included in radio and television spin-offs.
