![]() ![]() This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. ![]() How many other copies of Truth could possibly be left in the world?” I looked through them and oh my god, there’s a comic by O’Neill! I bought them all, 3 for $5 each, and now I am the proud possessor of them. I knew from previous research that both O’Neill and Grace Drayton had drawn for it. “There was a garage sale around the corner from my house and this guy had issues of a magazine called Truth from the late 1890s. As far as anyone knows the very first comic by a woman was by Rose O’Neill, in 18, around the time of The Yellow Kid. Several of Robbins’ finds leading up to Pretty in Ink were, as she calls them, “adventures in serendipity. In the ’40s, she adds, DC Comics and Marvel employed artists Romona Fradon and Marie Severin, respectively. ![]() “And after that she became quite a well-known artist painting murals all over the Southwest,” Robbins says. The women covered range from Dale Messick’s well-known reporter Brenda Starr, in a comics series that ended its decades-long run in 2011, to Eva Mirabal, a Taos Pueblo, N.M., artist and corporal in the Women’s Army Corps who drew the G.I. Article content ‘Women have not been included in so many histories because people dismiss it as trivial’ Manage Print Subscription / Tax Receipt. ![]()
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