Ruth Atkinson, the Glossary
Ruth Atkinson Ford, née Ruth Atkinson and a.k.a. R. Atkinson (June 2, 1918 – June 1, 1997), was an American cartoonist and pioneering female comic book writer-artist who created the long-running Marvel Comics character Millie the Model and co-created Patsy Walker.[1]
Table of Contents
42 relations: American comic book, Art director, Cartoonist, Comic book, Comics Buyer's Guide, Comics packaging, Connecticut, Daryl Cagle, DK (publisher), Eastern Color Printing, Eclipse Comics, FamilySearch, Fiction House, Fran Hopper, Horse racing, Inker, Jerry Iger, Lambiek, Lev Gleason Publications, Lily Renée, List of female comics creators, Marcia Snyder, Marvel Comics, Mike Sekowsky, Millie the Model, MSNBC, National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame, Ontario, Otto Binder, Pacifica, California, Patsy Walker, Penciller, Romance comics, Ruth Roche (comics), Sequential Tart, Social Security Death Index, Ted Atkinson, The Comics Journal, Timely Comics, Toronto, Upstate New York, Wings Comics.
American comic book
An American comic book is a thin periodical originating in the United States, on average 32 pages, containing comics.
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Art director
Art director is the title for a variety of similar job functions in theater, advertising, marketing, publishing, fashion, film and television, the Internet, and video games.
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Cartoonist
A cartoonist is a visual artist who specializes in both drawing and writing cartoons (individual images) or comics (sequential images).
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Comic book
A comic book, also called comicbook, comic magazine or simply comic, is a publication that consists of comics art in the form of sequential juxtaposed panels that represent individual scenes.
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Comics Buyer's Guide
Comics Buyer's Guide (CBG), established in 1971, was the longest-running English-language periodical reporting on the American comic book industry.
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Comics packaging
Comics packaging is a publishing activity in which a publishing company outsources the myriad tasks involved in putting together a comic book — writing, illustrating, editing, and even printing — to an outside service called a packager.
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Connecticut
Connecticut is the southernmost state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States.
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Daryl Cagle
Daryl Cagle (born 1956) is an American editorial cartoonist, the publisher of Cagle.com and owner of Cagle Cartoons, Inc., a newspaper syndicate.
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DK (publisher)
Dorling Kindersley Limited (branded as DK) is a British multinational publishing company specialising in illustrated reference books for adults and children in 63 languages.
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Eastern Color Printing
The Eastern Color Printing Company was a company that published comic books, beginning in 1933.
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Eclipse Comics
Eclipse Comics was an American comic book publisher, one of several independent publishers during the 1980s and early 1990s.
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FamilySearch
FamilySearch is a nonprofit organization and website offering genealogical records, education, and software.
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Fiction House
Fiction House was an American publisher of pulp magazines and comic books that existed from the 1920s to the 1950s.
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Fran Hopper
Fran Hopper (July 13, 1922 – November 29, 2017), née Frances R. Deitrick, was an American comic-book artist active during the 1930s–1940s period known as the Golden Age of Comic Books. Ruth Atkinson and Fran Hopper are American female comics artists and Golden Age comics creators.
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Horse racing
Horse racing is an equestrian performance activity, typically involving two or more horses ridden by jockeys (or sometimes driven without riders) over a set distance for competition.
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Inker
The inker (sometimes credited as the finisher or embellisher) is one of the two line artists in traditional comic book production.
Jerry Iger
Samuel Maxwell "Jerry" Iger (August 22, 1903 – September 5, 1990) was an American cartoonist and art-studio entrepreneur. Ruth Atkinson and Jerry Iger are Golden Age comics creators.
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Lambiek
Galerie Lambiek is a Dutch comic book store and art gallery in Amsterdam, founded on November 8, 1968 by Kees Kousemaker (– Bussum). His son Boris Kousemaker has been the owner since 2007.
Lev Gleason Publications
Lev Gleason Publications, founded by Leverett Stone Gleason (1898–1971), was the publisher of a number of popular comic books during the 1940s and early 1950s, including Daredevil Comics, Crime Does Not Pay, and Boy Comics.
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Lily Renée
Lily Renée Phillips (née Willheim; May 12, 1921 – August 24, 2022), often credited as L. Renée, Lily Renée, or Reney, was an Austrian-born American artist best known as one of the earliest women in the comic-book industry, beginning in the 1940s period known as the Golden Age of Comics. Ruth Atkinson and Lily Renée are American female comics artists and Golden Age comics creators.
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List of female comics creators
This is a list of women who have been involved with producing comic books and comic strips.
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Marcia Snyder
Marcia Louise Snyder (sometimes spelled "Snider") was a comic book artist and newspaper cartoonist who worked for the Binder Studio, Timely Comics, Fawcett Comics, and Fiction House during the Golden Age of Comic Books. Ruth Atkinson and Marcia Snyder are American female comics artists and Golden Age comics creators.
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Marvel Comics
Marvel Comics is an American comic book publisher and the property of The Walt Disney Company since December 31, 2009, and a subsidiary of Disney Publishing Worldwide since March 2023.
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Mike Sekowsky
Michael Sekowsky (November 19, 1923 – March 30, 1989) was an American comics artist known as the penciler for DC Comics' Justice League of America during most of the 1960s, and as the regular writer and artist on Wonder Woman during the late 1960s and early 1970s. Ruth Atkinson and Mike Sekowsky are Golden Age comics creators and Marvel Comics people.
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Millie the Model
Millie the Model is Marvel Comics' longest-running humor title, first published by the company's 1940s predecessor, Timely Comics, and continuing through its 1950s forerunner, Atlas Comics, to 1970s Marvel.
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MSNBC
MSNBC (short for Microsoft NBC) is an American news-based television channel and website headquartered in New York City.
National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame
The National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame was founded in 1950 in Saratoga Springs, New York, to honor the achievements of American Thoroughbred race horses, jockeys, and trainers.
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Ontario
Ontario is the southernmost province of Canada.
Otto Binder
Otto Oscar Binder (August 26, 1911 – October 13, 1974) was an American author of science fiction and non-fiction books and stories, and comic books. Ruth Atkinson and Otto Binder are Golden Age comics creators.
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Pacifica, California
Pacifica (Pacífica, meaning "Peaceful") is a city in San Mateo County, California, on the coast of the Pacific Ocean between San Francisco and Half Moon Bay.
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Patsy Walker
Patricia "Patsy" Walker is a superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics.
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Penciller
A penciller (or penciler) is an artist who works on the creation of comic books, graphic novels, and similar visual art forms, with a focus on the initial pencil illustrations, usually in collaboration with other artists, who provide inks, colors and lettering in the book, under the supervision of an editor.
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Romance comics
Romance comics are a genre of comic books that were most popular during the Golden Age of Comics.
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Ruth Roche (comics)
Ruth Ann Roche (18 February 1917 – 4 May 1983) was a writer and editor in the Golden Age of Comic Books. Ruth Atkinson and Ruth Roche (comics) are Golden Age comics creators.
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Sequential Tart
Sequential Tart (ST) is an online magazine focused on comics and popular culture from a female perspective.
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The Social Security Death Index (SSDI) was a database of death records created from the United States Social Security Administration's Death Master File until 2014.
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Ted Atkinson
Theodore Frederick Atkinson (June 17, 1916 – May 5, 2005) was a Canadian-born American thoroughbred horse racing jockey, inducted into the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame in 1957.
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The Comics Journal
The Comics Journal, often abbreviated TCJ, is an American magazine of news and criticism pertaining to comic books, comic strips and graphic novels.
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Timely Comics
Timely Comics is the common name for the group of corporations that was the earliest comic book arm of American publisher Martin Goodman, and the entity that would evolve by the 1960s to become Marvel Comics.
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Toronto
Toronto is the most populous city in Canada and the capital city of the Canadian province of Ontario.
Upstate New York
Upstate New York is a geographic region of New York that lies north and northwest of the New York City metropolitan area of downstate New York.
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Wings Comics
Wings Comics was an aviation-themed anthology comic book published by Fiction House from 1940 to 1954.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Atkinson
Also known as Ruth Atkinson Ford.