by Rick Coste | Dec 15, 2020 | Illustrators, Platinum Age, Writers
Katherine Rice If you think that comics weren’t risqué in the early years of the 20th century, then you haven’t seen Flora Flirt. Flora was the brainchild of cartoonist Katherine P. Rice and ran in the Philadelphia North American from 1913-1914. What made it risqué?...
by Rick Coste | Dec 15, 2020 | Illustrators, Platinum Age, Writers
Dorothy Urfer When Dorothy Urfer first took her job as a dental assistant in her early twenties, she could not have known that by the age of twenty-four she’d be working as a cartoonist. That’s precisely what happened in 1929 when she was hired by the Newspaper...
by Rick Coste | Dec 15, 2020 | Illustrators, Platinum Age, Writers
Fay King Look closely while watching the 1924 movie The Great White Way, and you just might catch a glimpse of Fay King (appearing as herself with other illustrators). Who was Fay King? Ms. King was a journalist and cartoonist whose contributions to comics in...
by Rick Coste | Dec 15, 2020 | Illustrators, Platinum Age, Writers
Virginia Huget If you’ve ever seen the film Gentlemen Prefer Blondes starring Marilyn Monroe, you may not know that its storied past included a comic strip adaptation in 1926. Spurred on by the success of the novel by Anita Loos in 1925, a successful play was produced...
by Rick Coste | Dec 15, 2020 | Illustrators, Platinum Age, Writers
Louise Hirsch Born in Romania in 1901, Louise Hirsch made a name for herself in the late 1920s with a comic strip about a girl named Tessie. Tessie Tish ran less than a year and appeared with a single-panel tagged at the end, which featured a character named Charlie...
