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	Effanbee Doll Company News!
		Dale portrayed my early life as a reporter, chasing “leads” supported by a team of colleagues including Tom Taglor (camera man—everyone says he was in love with me), Pesky Miller (copy boy), Daphne Dimples (niece of the boss), and Muggs Walters (original boss and editor of the Flash—later my boss was Mr.
		Dale kept my adventures glamorous—some may say they read like a soap opera, and fashion and romance always played an important role in any story I appeared in.
		Dale’s life was filled with her own adventures, including two marriages (and two divorces) and the birth of her own child.
	www.effanbeedoll.com /dalem.htm (557 words)

	Dale Messick: A Comic Strip Life (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Dale's dedication to the art of cartooning, her success as an internationally acclaimed artist and her lively and off beat personality bestow on her the title of the First Lady of Funnies.
		Dale didn't like high school finding it "dull" but after graduation, she continued her studies at the Ray Commercial Art School in Chicago.
		Dale Messick was also representative of her time, and armed with several strips, she changed her name from Dalia to Dale as a first step in competing for her place in the world of newspaper comics.
	www.awn.com /mag/issue5.04/5.04pages/legermessick.php3 (746 words)

	Comic creator: Dale Messick
		Dale Messick, born Dalia Messick, studied at the Chicago Art Institute for one summer, and started her career in comics in the mid-1920s, when she tried to sell her first comic strip 'Weegee', about a country girl who goes to the city.
		Messick had a hard time finding a publisher, which she attributed to the fact that she was a woman, so she assumed the more sexually ambiguous name, Dale.
		Messick was influenced by the work of the famous female comic artist, Nell Brinkley.
	www.lambiek.net /artists/m/messick_d.htm (190 words)

	Dale Messick -- cartoonist who drew Brenda Starr
		Messick's curvaceous reporter began her globe-trotting adventures in 1940, and her strip, "Brenda Starr, Reporter," ran in 250 papers at its peak in the 1950s.
		Messick's Brenda literally had stars in her eyes, and other characters populating her paneled world were surreal in a way often compared to the popular Dick Tracy comic strip.
		Messick moved from Chicago to Sonoma County in 1981 to be close to her daughter and grandchildren.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/04/08/BAGFJC54MA1.DTL (610 words)

	Dale Messick, 98; created 'Brenda Starr' comic strip - The Boston Globe
		Miss Messick, whose strip ran in 250 newspapers at its peak in the 1950s, died Tuesday, said her daughter, Starr Rohrman, who had been caring for her mother in Sonoma County.
		Miss Messick, who jettisoned her given name Dalia to further her career, once said Brenda had ''everything I didn't have." But she charmed acquaintances with spunk and style worthy of her redheaded creation.
		In old age, Miss Messick moved to northern California to be near her daughter and two grandchildren, Curt and Laura.
	www.boston.com /news/globe/obituaries/articles/2005/04/08/dale_messick_98_created_brenda_starr_comic_strip (681 words)

	Dale Messick - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Dale Messick (April 11, 1906 – April 5, 2005) was the first woman syndicated comic strip artist in the United States.
		Messick created the character of Brenda Starr in 1940, naming it after a debutante from the 1930s and basing her appearance on Rita Hayworth.
		Messick wanted to produce a strip with a female protagonist; she decided a career as a reporter would allow her character to travel and have adventures, adventures more glamorous than those actually experienced by most reporters.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dale_Messick (717 words)

	Headline News :: Entertainment News Blogs :: 'Brenda Starr' creator dies at 98
		Messick, whose strip ran in 250 newspapers at its peak in the 1950s, died Tuesday, said her daughter, Starr Rohrman, who had been caring for her mother in Sonoma County.
		Messick -- who jettisoned her given name Dalia to further her career -- once said Brenda had "everything I didn't have." But she charmed acquaintances with spunk and style worthy of her redheaded creation.
		In old age, Messick moved to Northern California to be near her daughter and two grandchildren, Curt and Laura.
	www.bloggossip.com /index.php?id=896 (653 words)

	Dale Messick, 98, Cartoonist, Creator of Brenda Starr - April 8, 2005 - The New York Sun
		Dale Messick, who died Tuesday in California, created "Brenda Starr, Reporter," the widely syndicated comic strip that provided an early taste of girl power in a male-dominated medium.
		Messick developed and drew the strip for 40 years, during which time her heroine filed her stories from around the world, jumped from airplanes, escaped from any number of villains' clutches, and had whirlwind romances.
		Messick dyed her hair red to match Brenda Starr's, and she named her daughter Starr; somehow, the "girl reporter" was more than just a fantasy for the Depression-era cartoonist.
	www.nysun.com /article/11960. (497 words)

	Dalia 'Dale' Messick
		Messick was born April 11, 1906 in South Bend, Ind. and worked as a greeting card designer while trying to break into the male-dominated comic strip business.
		Messick retired in 1983, the strip continued to be written and drawn by successors and still runs in several newspapers across the country.
		Messick is survived by her daughter Starr Rohrman of Penngrove, grandchildren and several nieces and nephews.
	www.arguscourier.com /obituaries/obits/obitmessick050413.html (204 words)

	MetroActive Books \| Dale Messick
		Messick is the creator of intrepid, fire-haired comic-strip news reporter Brenda Starr--an enduring conflux of stouthearted vixen, über-frau, and svelte, impeccably coiffed career woman with a penchant for breaking news and difficult men.
		Profoundly near-sighted, the young Messick couldn't see the looming face of the classroom clock, slowing her mastery of time-telling at an age when such skills are an important social factor (queries about the time of day still cause her a flash of anxiety).
		MESSICK'S ABILITY to draw became an obvious refuge, and the talent she nurtured throughout her school years eventually garnered her a position designing greeting cards at a Chicago publishing house when in her early 20s.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/sonoma/02.19.98/comics-9807.html (1409 words)

	Comics Page: Brenda Starr
		Dale claims that many of her story ideas for the Brenda Starr comic strip come to her in her dreams and often wakes at 4 a.m.
		Messick, a romantic at heart whose hobby is traveling to exciting locales around the world.
		Although she claims he was not a very good artist, she was sufficiently influenced by his good looks to create a character that has remained in the strip for years.
	www.comicspage.com /brendastarr/brenda_creators2.html (180 words)

	‘Brenda Starr’ creator dies at 98 - MORE NEWS AND FEATURES - MSNBC.com
		Dale Messick was a woman in a man’s industry
		Dale Messick is seen working on her comic strip, "Brenda Starr," in 1982.
		Messick — who jettisoned her given name Dalia to further her career — once said Brenda had “everything I didn’t have.” But she charmed acquaintances with spunk and style worthy of her redheaded creation.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/7421946 (780 words)

	Comment: Digital Counts
		It may not have seemed a particularly emancipated vision, but given that Messick was a pioneer of the craft in a generation of cartoonists that - even more so than today - was almost completely male dominated, her work represented a great stride forwards for women in comics.
		Messick's great creation, based on the debutantes of the era and film stars such as Rita Hayworth, struck such a chord with readers that Brenda became a fashion icon, with a number of magazine covers to her credit.
		Messick won the National Cartoonist Society's Milton Caniff Lifetime Achievement Award in 1997, and was inducted into the Eisner Hall of Fame in 2001.
	www.ninthart.com /display.php?article=1023 (954 words)

	Tribune Media Services \| Newsmakers
		This classic continuity comic strip was a pioneer in the cartooning industry as the first to feature a strong female lead character illustrated and written by a woman.
		Dale Messick, one of the few female cartoonists of the time, changed her name to Dale, from Dahlia, after initial rejections from syndicates.
		She began cartooning in 1917, at the age of 11and is still at work today from her home in Northern California at 92.
	www.tms.tribune.com /newsmakers/9805-3.html (387 words)

	Cartoonist Dale Messick Dies; Creator of 'Brenda Starr' Strip (washingtonpost.com)
		Messick said she would get letters from male readers who, assuming she was male, would ask for "more daring" private sketches of the glamorous Brenda.
		Messick's Brenda also was criticized as the women's liberation movement picked up steam in the 1970s for being more interested in love and fashion than the controversies of the day.
		Messick had a small pension and worked on an unfinished autobiography, called "Still Stripping at 90." She also drew a single-panel strip that the AARP's Modern Maturity magazine rejected because its characters, including Granny Glamour, were too activist.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/articles/A35837-2005Apr7.html (1290 words)

	Dale Messick -- an Honorary Unsubscribe
		A cartoonist, in 1940 Messick created the comic strip "Brenda Starr, Reporter", which she drew and wrote for 43 years.
		At the time, it was rare for a comic to have a strong, female, working character; Messick modeled the smart Starr character after herself, but it was a long road to respect.
		During its heyday, the comic was in 250 newspapers, but in 1983 her syndicate pressured her to retire, replacing her with other artists because she didn't have ownership of her own creation.
	www.honoraryunsubscribe.com /dale_messick.html (1086 words)

	Blog of Death: Dale Messick (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Dale Messick, the cartoonist who created the long-running, syndicated comic strip "Brenda Starr, Reporter," died on April 5.
		The Indiana native didn't graduate from high school until she was 21, but found her life's purpose in writing and drawing.
		At a time when women rarely worked outside of the home, Messick changed her name from the feminine "Dalia" to the more gender-neutral "Dale," and launched a career in comics.
	www.blogofdeath.com /archives/001377.html (313 words)

	Our Daily Dead » Blog Archive » Dale Messick; Her ‘Brenda Starr’ Reporter Provided a Role Model
		Dale Messick; Her ‘Brenda Starr’; Reporter Provided a Role Model
		Dale Messick, a comic book artist who created the glamorous, red-haired Brenda Starr, has died.
		Messick, whose “Brenda Starr, Star Reporter” strip ran in 250 newspapers at its peak in the 1950s, died Tuesday, said her daughter, Starr Rohrman, who had been caring for her mother in Sonoma County.
	www.ourdailydead.com /dale-messick.htm (260 words)

	Brenda Starr still a headline story \| The San Diego Union-Tribune
		When comic strip artist Dale Messick died recently at the age of 98, the name of the spunky graphic character she created, glamorous reporter Brenda Starr, was a lot better known than her own, but she should be remembered as one of the few significant female forces in the comic art world.
		Her long-running strip lives on, now executed by other people, but it was Messick's tenacious personality and talent that brought Brenda Starr to life and made her a role model for generations of young girls.
		Messick also designed paper dolls to go with the strip, presenting Brenda in discreet underwear, with a choice of costumes raging from career outfits – often stylish suits complete with matching hat and open-toed shoes – to sophisticated evening gowns: This girl reporter was very much a fashion icon.
	www.signonsandiego.com /uniontrib/20050501/news_1hs01collect.html (526 words)

	Don Markstein's Toonopedia: Brenda Starr
		From all reports, the main thing Patterson had against it was that its creator, Dale Messick, was a woman.
		It turned out to be a good deal both ways, as it gave Patterson's syndicate a lucrative property, made Messick the premier female cartoonist of her generation, and launched a strip that has been running continuously since June 30, 1940.
		Messick had assistants to draw action scenes and technical things such as cars and buildings, but she herself always handled the fashions, the faces, the gestures — all the details that give the strip a feminine air.
	www.toonopedia.com /br_starr.htm (514 words)

	Dale Messick Biography (Cartoonist) — Infoplease.com
		Dale Messick created the long-running comic strip Brenda Starr.
		Messick was already a successful commercial artist when she sent the Chicago Tribune her idea for a strip about a crusading newspaper reporter, changing her own name from Dahlia to Dale to avoid prejudice against female artists.
		Dale Messick - Dale Messick Age: 98 cartoonist whose comic strip, Brenda Starr, Reporter, debuted in 1940 and...
	www.infoplease.com /biography/var/dalemessick.html (194 words)

	The Comics Reporter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		It was publicly announced through an Associated Press client yesterday that Dalia "Dale" Messick had recently passed away in California, where she had been under the care of her daughter.
		Messick reportedly didn't care for the film which if I remember correctly was delayed for years.
		She was described by Lambiek, remembered by Mark Evanier and Lea Hernandez, profiled extensively in various media sources, had her importance related to readers by Trina Robbins, and saw her character described at both Answers.com and by Don Markstein.
	www.comicsreporter.com /index.php/more_on_the_passing_of_dale_messick (555 words)

	MILE HIGH COMICS presents THE BEAT at COMICON.com: Dale Messick dead at 98 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Messick was a pioneer for women cartoonists with her long running daily strip which chronicled the glamourous adventures of globe trotting reporter Starr.
		Born Dalia Messick, after getting rejection after after rejection from syndicates, she adopted the more ambiguous name Dale and soon got her strip in the papers.
		I was 12 when I saw an article on Messick in People magazine, and knew that at least ONE girl had made a living as a cartoonist.
	www.comicon.com /thebeat/2005/04/dale_messick_dead_at_98.html (383 words)

	news from me - ARCHIVES (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Dale Messick, R.I.P. Dale Messick, creator of the long-running newspaper strip Brenda Starr has died, a few days before what would have been her 99th birthday.
		As I mentioned here, her strip "was drawn with great energy and humor, and the writing stands up far better than many strips of its era." It is also worth noting that her career represented a triumph over the inane notion that a woman's work has, by definition, less worth than a man's.
		She shouldn't have had to change her signature from Dalia Messick to the more ambiguous Dale to get her work accepted but by the time most folks found out Dale was a lady, she'd proven she could do a newspaper strip as well as the above-average male.
	www.newsfromme.com /archives/2005_04_07.html (563 words)

	'Brenda Starr' Creator Dale Messick Dies at 98 (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.virginia.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Published: April 07, 2005 3:05 PM ET PENNGROVE, Calif. (AP) Dale Messick, whose long-running comic strip "Brenda Starr, Reporter" gave her entry into the male world of the funny pages, has died at age 98.
		Messick once said Brenda had "everything I didn't have." But she charmed acquaintances with spunk and style worthy of her redheaded creation.
		Messick, who received the National Cartoonist Society's Milton Caniff Lifetime Achievement Award in 1997, married a man in the art supply business, Everett George, with whom she had her daughter.
	www.editorandpublisher.com.cob-web.org:8888 /eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000873742 (958 words)

	[Deathwatch] Dale Messick, 'Brenda Starr' creator, 98
		'Brenda Starr' creator dies at 98 Dale Messick was rare female cartoonist of her day Thursday, April 7, 2005 Posted: 4:28 PM EDT (2028 GMT) http://www.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/books/04/07/obit.dale.messick.ap/index.
		html PENNGROVE, California (AP) -- Dale Messick, whose long-running comic strip "Brenda Starr, Reporter" gave her entry into the male world of the funny pages, has died at age 98.
		Attached was a note: "Is this daring enough?" Born in South Bend, Indiana, on April 11, 1906, Messick studied art and got a job at one greeting card company and then another, working on her strips at night.
	slick.org /deathwatch/mailarchive/msg01706.html (695 words)

	D. Messick, 'Brenda Starr' creator (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Mixing hot copy with high fashion, Brenda plunged from one adventure to another, sassing her tough-talking editor, Mr.
		Brenda would later come under fire for being too preoccupied with her looks and her men, and too far removed from the routine of real newspaperwomen.
		Born in South Bend, Ind., on April 11, 1906, with the name Dalia - a moniker she jettisoned to further her career - Messick developed her artistic skills early, scribbling illustrations on her schoolbooks and telling stories to classmates.
	www.azcentral.com /arizonarepublic/local/articles/0408death08.html (335 words)

	MESSICK MSS. XI (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		XI, Jan. 1-27, July 10-Aug. 18, Nov. 12- Dec. 31, 1951 and Jan. 1-5, 1952, consist of 84 original pen and ink drawings of the Brenda Starr newspaper comic strip by Dale Messick, 1906-, cartoonist.
		XI consist of 60 original pen and ink drawings of the Brenda Starr newspaper comic strip by Dale Messick, 1906-.
		XI consist of 52 original pen and ink drawings of the Brenda Starr newspaper comic strip by Dale Messick, 1906-.
	www.indiana.edu /~liblilly/lilly/mss/html/mess11.html (322 words)

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