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How Some of the 20th Century’s Most Notable Cartoonists Got Their Starts

How Some of the 20th Century’s Most Notable Cartoonists Got Their Starts

Posted on January 6, 2023February 6, 2023Author CarolPosted in Uncategorized

Tom Heintjes at Hogan’s Alley kindly put my 2019 article on a popular early cartooning contest for young people online for free. For more than a decade, the magazine Open Road for Boys gave aspiring artists a chance to share their “solutions” to a problem cartoon. At the head of this post, you can see…

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Jane Krom Grammer: A Golden-Age Comic Book Artist Finally Receives Credit for Her Work

Posted on June 9, 2019January 23, 2023Author CarolPosted in Uncategorized9 Replies

When Barrie Schindler was young, her mother Jane Krom Grammer mentioned to her that she had drawn art for comic books. Jane kept a package filled with several issues of Supersnipe Comics from the mid-1940s and pointed to the Dotty stories in them. But Jane’s name didn’t appear anywhere on the art and there were…

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