Marjorie Henderson Buell Little Lulu's Mother

 

Marjorie Henderson Buell

Little Lulu's Mother

Marjorie Henderson Buell became the first 

female cartoonist in

 the American press with the world-famous Little Lulu. This comic is remembered because it is a story.

Marjorie Henderson Buell, Little Lulu's Mother

Marjorie Henderson Buell became the first female cartoonist in the American press with the world-famous Little Lulu. This comic is remembered because it is a story of a mischievous little girl. Henderson Buell was the pioneer in featuring a girl as the protagonist of a comic, although the character has a strong, independent, and unconventional character: she is a girl who outsmarts the boys. Her career began early after she demonstrated her drawing ability. At 16, she had already published her first comic strip in The Philadelphia Ledger, which was later bought by the magazine's syndicate and eventually ended up being published in Life. [single-related post_id="881395"] In 1934, cartoonist Henderson Buell was working for The Saturday Evening Post. The newspaper published a cartoon character named 'Henry,' but after leaving the publication, which was bought by the syndicate, the editor asked Buell to create a new character. Thus, in 1934, Little Lulu appeared in the comic pages of Saturday Evening Post. She replaced the male character with a little girl. She drew the character for nearly ten years, and in 1944, a cartoon adaptation was made, and Little Lulu became a series that reached various European and Latin American countries. From that year on, John Stanley was in charge of defining the lines that brought the doll to life in the pages of the magazine, and Henderson Buell was in charge of writing the scripts that added flair to the character. The cartoon's compilation books were published in several languages: Arabic, Finnish, Japanese, Spanish, and Greek. Marjorie Henderson Buell retired from drawing in 1971 at the age of 64, having dedicated 40 of those years to her career. She ended her life in her home in Ohio, and her family took over from drawing comics. She lived until she was 88, when lymphoma caused her death on May 30, 1993.

With affection,

Ruben