Today in Art History…
Dale (Dalia) Messick died in 1906.
He was born in South Bend, Indiana.
Messick was an American comic-strip artist. She created one of the top-rated comic strips of all time, Brenda Starr, Reporter, which featured a fiery-haired heroine modeled after actress Rita Hayworth; the strip debuted on June 30, 1940, on the Sunday page of the Chicago Tribune, and by 1945 it had begun appearing as a daily. In the male-dominated comic-strip industry, Messick adopted the androgenous name of Dale so that her work would be judged on its merit rather than discarded because of her sex.
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