by Rick Coste | Dec 19, 2020 | Golden Age, Illustrators
Virginia Krausmann When Dorothy Urfer ended her run on Annibelle in 1936, the Newspaper Enterprise Association needed another artist to continue their popular title. They turned to staff-artist Virginia Krausmann to carry the torch. Kraussmann did so successfully...
by Rick Coste | Dec 19, 2020 | Golden Age, Illustrators
Fran Hopper Somewhere out there, you may stumble across Planet Comics #24 (1943). If you do, there’s a story in there called “Norge Benson.” That story was penciled and inked by Fran Deitrick. You’ll also find the same artist responsible for...
by Rick Coste | Dec 18, 2020 | Golden Age, Illustrators
Lily Renée Imagine being an artist and one day finding your life’s adventures captured in a graphic novel almost seventy years later? That’s precisely what happened to Lily Renée in 2011 when Graphic Universe published her biography in Lily Renée, Escape...
by Rick Coste | Dec 18, 2020 | Golden Age, Illustrators
Alice Kirkpatrick It seemed a natural progression to move from work as an artist illustrating pulp magazines to comics. Still, Alice Kirkpatrick didn’t know that at the time. In 1937 her time was spent working for Ace Magazines, signing her name...
by Rick Coste | Dec 17, 2020 | Golden Age, Illustrators
Barbara Hall After attending art school with aspirations of being a painter, Barbara Fiske Calhoun moved to New York in 1940. It was there that, unable to find much success as a painter, she happened to show her work to the editors of Harvey Comics. They immediately...
by Rick Coste | Dec 17, 2020 | Editors, Golden Age, Illustrators, Writers
Ray Hermann There weren’t many women working in comics in the early forties. Those who were often had to write under a male pseudonym as it was felt readers wouldn’t accept a comic either written or illustrated by a woman. In 1938 Audrey “Toni” Blum walked into...
