by Rick Coste | Dec 12, 2020 | Illustrators, Platinum Age
Grace Drayton If you’ve ever been to an antique shop and seen posters, postcards, or old ads of little, cherubic-faced children standing around Campbell Soup cans, then you’ve seen the work of Grace Drayton. Ms. Drayton actually created the Campbell Soup Kids in 1904,...
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 | 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...
by Rick Coste | Dec 9, 2020 | Illustrators, Platinum Age, Writers
Mildred Burleigh Not a whole lot is known about the life of Mildred Burleigh. What is known is that she was born in 1887 as Mildred E. Burley and lived in Indiana. In April 1908, the Grand Rapids Press published a staff change at a school in Carson City, Oregon....
