by Rick Coste | Dec 17, 2020 | Golden Age, Writers
Patricia Highsmith In 1999 the world was introduced to the award-winning film The Talented Mr. Ripley starring Matt Damon, Gwyneth Paltrow, and Jude Law. You may not know that the film is based on the 1955 novel of the same name, written by Patricia Highsmith. What is...
by Rick Coste | Dec 17, 2020 | Golden Age, Writers
Virginia Hubbell Virginia Hubbel Bloch began her career working for Lev Gleason Publications in the 1940s, scripting their Daredevil and Boy Comics series. She is also credited with having worked on the violent title Crime Does Not Pay! In the 1950s, she wrote for...
by Rick Coste | Dec 17, 2020 | Golden Age, Illustrators, Writers
Ruth Atkinson Among the longest-running female characters ever created is Millie the Model and Patsy Walker (who later became Marvel’s “Hellcat”). Both were co-created by writer/artist Ruth Atkinson in the 1940s. Atkinson began her career with Fiction House in the...
by Rick Coste | Dec 17, 2020 | Golden Age, Illustrators
Violet Barclay Before there was Marvel Comics, there was Timely comics, and their offices were located at the Empire State Building in New York. It was here, in 1942, that a twenty-year-old named Violet Barclay walked in to start her job as an artist on staff. At the...
by Rick Coste | Dec 17, 2020 | Golden Age, Illustrators, Writers
Jill Elgin Born Kathleen Jo Elgin in 1923, one of the things she loved to do was draw. It was no surprise to friends and family that she turned that love into drawing a comic strip for her school’s newspaper when she was fourteen – which she signed as “Jo...
by Rick Coste | Dec 17, 2020 | Golden Age, Writers
Toni Blum 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 Eisner...
