by Rick Coste | Dec 19, 2020 | Golden Age, Illustrators, Writers
Jackie Ormes Readers of the Pittsburgh Courier received an unexpected treat in the comics section on May 1, 1937. It was the first appearance of Torchy Brown in Dixie to Harlem, a fictional character who left Mississippi to perform in Harlem’s famed Cotton Club. Not...
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, 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, 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...
