About
Cartoonist who, in 1975, received the National Cartoonists Society's Story Comic Book Award for her work on Brenda Star.
Before Fame
Her first job out of college was creating art for a Chicago greeting card company, which she left at the start of the Great Depression when her pay was lowered.
Trivia
In 1997, she obtained the Milton Caniff Lifetime Achievement Award for Brenda Star.
Family Life
She was born Dalia Messick, in South Bend, Indiana, her mother a seamstress and her father a sign painter who encouraged her to draw.
Associated With
She named her dashing female reporter Brenda Starr after a 1930s debutante and gave her the looks of movie star Rita Hayworth.
