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.
She began her cartooning career in 1954 at Austin’s Texas Observer and has been with the Fort Worth Star-Telegram since 1972.
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.
In 1904 Grace Drayton produced drawings for streetcar ads for what became her best known creation, the Campbell Kids.
One of the best known and beloved cartoonists for the New Yorker
Humorous illustrator and cartoonist for such magazines as Esquire, the New Yorker, Life, and Colliers.
American journalist, biographer, screenwriter and political spouse
Beginning as a daily in 1918, her comic was expanded with a Sunday feature that ran from 1938 to 1963.
American playwright
Debuting in 1976, Cathy Guisewite’s unapologetically autobiographical strip addressed romance, marriage, family relationships, pets, food, and work