Helen Hokinson
One of the best known and beloved cartoonists for the New Yorker
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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.
Etta Hulme
She began her cartooning career in 1954 at Austin’s Texas Observer and has been with the Fort Worth Star-Telegram since 1972.
Dr Frances Heywood
In the 1930s Frances started the research for which she is best known and which led to her PhD, on the characteristics of the tin-based alloys used in making typeface.
Dorothy Heyward
American playwright
Dorothy McKay
Humorous illustrator and cartoonist for such magazines as Esquire, the New Yorker, Life, and Colliers.
Edith O’Shaughnessy
American journalist, biographer, screenwriter and political spouse
Edwina Dumm
Beginning as a daily in 1918, her comic was expanded with a Sunday feature that ran from 1938 to 1963.
Cathy Guisewite
Debuting in 1976, Cathy Guisewite’s unapologetically autobiographical strip addressed romance, marriage, family relationships, pets, food, and work
Célia Bertin
Célia Bertin was recruited to help Allied aviators hidden in Occupied Paris because of her ability to speak English. In 1993 she published a study of women during this period, Femmes sous l’Occupation.