#edwina dumm

[dogandcatcomics]

I am a fan of the work of Edwina Dumm (Ohio, USA, 1893-1990).   Thanks to @noiryaguara for the tip.  https://konkykru.com/e.edwina.html?fbclid=IwAR18cy2J0GRDfw0wTeiFFFyJivRmZVqcqQ32wqfWK-9XOsdtuvYF87NJlVE

[never-a-president]

Edwina Dumm was never president of the United States.

[vculibraries]

Sinbad...a lovable pup!

Sinbad was the creation of Edwina Dumm, one of the earliest female syndicated cartoonists. Signing her name simply “Edwina,” Dumm worked at a time when women were not yet able to vote and drew cartoons on a wide range of topics, including the Mexican War and women’s suffrage. She retired in 1966.

Sinbad, A Dog’s Life (NC 1429.D75 S56 1930) and Sinbad Again! (NC 1429 .D755) can be found in Special Collections and Archives on the fourth floor of James Branch Cabell Library.

[womeninillustration]

Edwina Dumm (1893-1990) was the first woman in America to be a full-time editorial cartoonist, and also drew the strip “Cap Stubbs and Tippie” for six decades. Further, her career as an editorial cartoonist began in 1915 – five years before women were given the vote in America. Suffrage was a common theme in her Spotlight Sketches, a full-page feature showcasing her cartoons.

She cartooned for the Columbus Monitor from its first edition on August 7, 1915, until the paper folded in July 1917. She then moved to New York City where she created the comic strip “Cap Stubbs and Tippie,” which she drew until her retirement in 1966. Her love of animals, especially dogs, was reflected in the cartoons she drew for several magazines and the books and sheet music she illustrated.

Dumm worked very fast, reputedly penciling a daily strip in an hour, a speed that most of us envy! In the late 1940s, she drew the covers for sheet music by her roommate, Helen Slater, who did both music and lyrics. Her weekly dog page ran in both Life and the London publication The Tatler. During the 1940s, she also contributed features to the Wonder Woman comic book. She was the first woman to receive the Golden Key Award from the National Cartoonist Society Hall of Fame in 1978.

After retiring from her from her comic strip, she remained active with watercolor paintings, photography and helping the elderly at her New York City apartment building when she was well into her eighties.

[adamlichi]

Edwina Dumm