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...
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...
