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 the Monitor, she was...
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 first titles she...
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. “…Miss Mildred...
Nell Brinkley – the “Queen of Comics”
Nell is standing in the doorway with an envelope in her hand. It is 1907 and she is wearing a hat and coat in the style of that era. PANEL 2 We can see over her shoulder as she holds the letter from the envelope. Its salutation reads: “Dear Ms. Brinkley,” PANEL 3...