by Rick Coste | Dec 12, 2020 | Illustrators, Platinum Age
Fanny Cory If you see this signature on a piece of art, it can only mean one thing – Fanny Cory. Fanny Cory began her career as a comic strip artist. Early works include Sonnysayings and Little Miss Muffet. Sonnysaying – about life through a...
by Rick Coste | Dec 11, 2020 | Illustrators, Silver Age
Ramona Fradon When Ramona Fradon started illustrating comics, she had no idea she was one of a very small handful of female artists in the industry. A pitifully small handful. This didn’t stop her from making a splash, however. Ms. Fradon is one of the most...
by Rick Coste | Dec 10, 2020 | Bronze Age, Editors, Writers
Jo Duffy How many people can say they were in a comic before actually working on them? Yep – Jo Duffy can. That’s her above asking for Iron Man’s autograph in issue #103. It was around that time that Ms. Duffy went to work for Marvel as an editor. Among the...
by Rick Coste | Dec 10, 2020 | Golden Age, Illustrators
Nina Albright What does Black Venus, Miss Victory, and Dr. Doom (not that Dr. Doom Marvelites!) have in common? Answer: They were all drawn by artist Nina Albricht. Ms. Albricht was born in 1907 and spent nine years illustrating comics. Even so, her body of work, as...
by Rick Coste | Dec 9, 2020 | Illustrators, Platinum Age
Dot Cochran Many early comic strips at the turn of the century featured society girls and their adventures. A perfect example of this is “Me and My Boyfriend”, illustrated by Dot Cochran. Dot was born in 1901. By her twenties, she illustrated her first...
