by Rick Coste | Dec 15, 2020 | Illustrators, Platinum Age, Writers
Fay King Look closely while watching the 1924 movie The Great White Way, and you just might catch a glimpse of Fay King (appearing as herself with other illustrators). Who was Fay King? Ms. King was a journalist and cartoonist whose contributions to comics in...
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 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...
by Rick Coste | Dec 10, 2020 | Bronze Age, Editors, Writers
Jo Duffy How many people can say they were in a comic before actually working on them? Yep – Jo Duffy can. That’s her above asking for Iron Man’s autograph in issue #103. It was around that time that Ms. Duffy went to work for Marvel as an editor. Among the...
