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...
by Rick Coste | Dec 14, 2020 | Illustrators, Platinum Age, Writers
Margaret Hays Margaret Hays may have been the sister of Grace Drayton, famous for her comic book art, but Margaret could hold her own. Not only was she an accomplished writer, but she also illustrated her own comics. A prime example of this was her 1908 strip Jennie...
by Rick Coste | Dec 14, 2020 | Illustrators, Platinum Age
Ethel Hays As an illustrator for her high school paper, Ethel Hays had aspirations for becoming a painter. Her studies and talent led to a scholarship to attend the private art school, Academie Julian, in Paris. Those dreams were cut short by Wor’d War I. Not...
by Rick Coste | Dec 13, 2020 | Illustrators, Platinum Age
Carol Hager Waddles was a very fortunate duck. One that was cared for and passed down generation after generation. In 1912, the year his grandaughter Carol was born, the artist Dok Hager created Dok’s Dippy Duck, which enjoyed a run in The Seattle Daily Times. When...
by Rick Coste | Dec 13, 2020 | Illustrators, Platinum Age, Writers
Edwina Dumm She was known simply as “Edwina,” and she was the first full-time cartoonist in America. Her full name was Edwina Drumm and, in 1915, she took her first job as a cartoonist working for the short-lived Columbus Daily Monitor. During her time with...
