Who Was Isabelle Émilie de Tessier? And Who Was Marie Duval?

  Isabelle Émilie de Tessier (Paris, 1847 -1890).
 
"About February of 1870, Ross handed the majority of artistic work on Ally Sloper over to “Marie Duval.” At first they were jointly signed by the two artists but eventually only Marie Duval’s signature appeared on the comic pages. "

Who was Marie Duval?  Good question.  You see, Marie Duval was the pseudonym of  Isabelle Émilie de Tessier.  Comic historians know about her, or as much as is known about her but to many comic fans her name means as much as that of Charles H. Ross.  But to be fair to the newbies, we are talking the mid 1860s on!

Now here was a pioneer comics creator and John Adcock on his excellent Yesterday's Papers blog has covered the subject far better than I ever could!




 The link, if you are interested is: http://john-adcock.blogspot.co.uk/2010/09/charles-henry-ross-1835-1897.html

You can also check out:  A Choice Collection of Queens and Kings, and other Things at this blog: https://nonsenselit.wordpress.com/2013/09/16/queens-and-kings/

So, you see, women have been drawing comics just as long as men have!