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...
by Rick Coste | Dec 16, 2020 | Illustrators, Platinum Age, Writers
Rose O’Neill Cartoonist, artist and writer Rose O’Neill couldn’t have known when she won her first art content at thirteen that she would go on to create a character that would make her a millionaire. That’s precisely what happened in 1909 when...
by Rick Coste | Dec 16, 2020 | Illustrators, Platinum Age, Writers
Marjorie Organ At 16, Marjorie Organ became the only artist on the New York Journal staff who wasn’t a man, opening the doors for others to come after her. Born in Ireland in 1886, Ms. Organ went on to create a few different comic strips, the most successful...
by Rick Coste | Dec 15, 2020 | Illustrators, Platinum Age, Writers
Inez Townsend Writer, musician, singer, songwriter, illustrator, cartoonist – it can be said that Inez Townsend (aka Inez Tribit) was an extremely talented woman. Born in England in 1877, Inez moved to the United States in 1891. Within a decade, she was writing...
by Rick Coste | Dec 15, 2020 | Illustrators, Platinum Age, Writers
Katherine Rice If you think that comics weren’t risqué in the early years of the 20th century, then you haven’t seen Flora Flirt. Flora was the brainchild of cartoonist Katherine P. Rice and ran in the Philadelphia North American from 1913-1914. What made it risqué?...
by Rick Coste | Dec 15, 2020 | Illustrators, Platinum Age, Writers
Dorothy Urfer When Dorothy Urfer first took her job as a dental assistant in her early twenties, she could not have known that by the age of twenty-four she’d be working as a cartoonist. That’s precisely what happened in 1929 when she was hired by the Newspaper...
