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Grace Drayton

In 1904 Grace Drayton produced drawings for streetcar ads for what became her best known creation, the Campbell Kids.

Helen Hokinson

One of the best known and beloved cartoonists for the New Yorker

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 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.

Claire Chevrillon

After the increasingly harsh laws were imposed on Jewish citizens during WWII, she joined the resistance most notably encoding and decoding messages between the Free French in London and de Gaulle’s Paris delegation.