GOLDEN AGE
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 also not widely...
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 Dell, Marvel Comics,...
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 early 40s,...
Violet Barclay
Before there was Marvel Comics, there was Timely comics, and their offices were located at the Empire State Building in New York. It was here, in 1942, that a twenty-year-old named Violet Barclay walked in to start her job as an artist on staff. At the time, Timely’s...
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 Elgin.” Flash forward a...
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 &...
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 well as the...