Comics Archives - Page 2 of 5

Roberta MacDonald

Unlike many cartoonists at that time, she depicted women in the military and other jobs.

Rose Cecil O’Neill was a self-taught bohemian artist, who ascended through a male-dominated field to become a top illustrator and the first to build a merchandising empire from her work, with her invention of the Kewpie doll.

Marjorie Henderson Buell

Marge Henderson Buell debuted her comic Little Lulu in 1935 in the Saturday Evening Post, where it became a hit and ran until 1944.

Lynn Johnston

Since 1979, when For Better or For Worse first appeared, Canadian artist Lynn Johnston (b. 1947) has been chronicling the lives of the Patterson family

Jillian Tamaki

In collaboration with her cousin, Tamaki creates believable young female characters based on her own experiences and imagination and imbues her illustrations with a strong sense of place.

Jen Sorensen

The first woman to win the Herblock Prize for editorial cartooning, Sorensen has addressed unequal treatment of women in the workplace in her cartoons and expressed concern about the small number of women in this field.

Hilary B Price

American cartoonist whose innovative comic succeeds within the mainstream but also appeals to those who favor off-beat humor.

Ethel McClellan Plummer

The first woman to publish a cartoon in the New Yorker, Ethel McClellan Plummer made cover designs and illustrations in the 1920s and 1930s for magazines of sophisticated fashion such as Vogue and Vanity Fair, as well as publications with broader appeal such as Life, Women’s Home Companion, Shadowland, and the New York Tribune.