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Dec 30, 2010 · Entertainment. Living inside Brenda Starr’s head for 25 years. By Mary Schmich. PUBLISHED: December 30, 2010 at 1:00 a.m. | UPDATED: August 23, 2021 at 4:44 a.m. A DAY IN DECEMBER 2010. Panel...
- Mary Schmich
So were all the old "story" strips, invented before television spoiled the average reader's patience for plots that dribbled on for months, three static panels at a glance. And in the wake of the feminist revolution, Brenda Starr, once a trailblazer, seemed as outdated as her omnipresent negligees.
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- Brenda Starr, Feminine & Fierce
- Abretha Breez: Fat Fine Or Funny?
- Hank & Brenda: Butch/Femme Pair
- Siberia: Black, Bold and The Help
- Basil St. John: Absence & All That
- Dale Messick’s Embrace of Camp
- Brenda Starr’s Post-War Domesticity
- Brenda Starr’s Other Incarnations
- Marriage, Motherhood & Brenda Starr
Dalia Messick was born in Indiana in 1906. She found earlyemployment as an artist for greeting card companies but her true ambition wasto write and draw a comic strip. She changed her professional name to Dale soher submission’s might fare better in the male dominated field of comic strips. After several failed attempts, Messick submitted a female ...
Tired of only getting birth and death notices to write up, the23-year old Brenda Starr—a reporter for the Globe—demands that her editor giveher a real story. He counters that she must get an interview with underworldfigure Silky Fowler by midnight or she’s fired. Brenda gets her story and startsher career as a hard-nosed but ever beautiful reporter...
In the second year of the comic strip, Messick introduces Brenda’soverweight country cousin, Abretha Breez. Messick describes how she came upwith the name overhearing someone comment on “a breath of breeze” one summerevening. Abretha came to the big city to seek a singing career. That her scaleread 250 pounds was just one aspect of who she was as a...
Brenda Starr’s rather masculine fellow female reporter who wears a beret. She first appears in the narrative as a rival reporter to Brenda at the Flash. She only grudgingly gains respect for Brenda, who she initially dismisses as a pretty piece of fluff. Before long, the two women are the best of friends and loyal allies. The significance of Hank’s...
Daphne Dimple’s attractive African-American maid who is more than willing to speak her mind but more often just shakes her head at the antics of her employer. She became Daphne’s maid in a Sunday page devoted to her (5/31/1942) when her employment agency was running out of possible replacements. She is soon shown making acerbic asides about her emp...
Brenda Starr first meets the love of her life in September 1945 when, after dreaming of of him, finds the fellow in her bedroom decked out in a red-line cape and black eye-patch. Not long after, he appears out of nowhere to rescue her from a blazing fire and once again disappears. Originally known simply as “the mystery man” with the black eye-patc...
Susan Sontag wrote an influential essay in 1964 entitled “Notes on ‘Camp.’” The concept is necessary to fully appreciate what Dale Messick was attempting with Brenda Starr in the forties and beyond, ahead of her time. Sontag argued that camp, among other things, was esoteric, extravagant, outlandish, playful, the enemy of the serious, favoring styl...
Many comic strips married off their heroes in the late forties and early fifities, with children soon to follow. Dick Tracy, Joe Palooka and Secret Agent Corrigan are all examples of this. But Dale Messick felt the pull of this but understood that Brenda Starr needed to stay single and continue to enjoy a series of extraordinary romances in the mid...
While less well known today, Brenda Starr enjoyed considerable popularity from the 1940s through the 1970s. A movie serial starring Joan Woodbury as Brenda hit theaters in January of 1945. Abretha and Pesky were the only other carryovers from the comic strip. Hoping to build off the popularity of Barbie as a glamorous fashion doll, a Brenda Starr d...
Dale Messick perhaps tired of finding artificial reasons tokeep Brenda and Basil St. John and set up a long narrative that finally endedin 1976 with their nuptials. While seeing them happy was initially rewarding,Messick’s initial instincts in keeping them apart soon proved to have been theright choice. With a major source of dramatic tension resol...
Brenda Starr, Reporter (often referred to simply as Brenda Starr) is a comic strip about a glamorous, adventurous reporter. It was created in 1940 by Dale Messick for the Chicago Tribune Syndicate, and continued by others until 2011.
Feb 20, 2019 · The Brenda Starr comic strip quickly became a favorite among the Comic Book Magazine features, and a year after its introduction Dale Messick and her creation “graduated” to the regular Chicago Tribune Sunday comics section. That was followed, on October 22, 1945, by a daily strip.
Dec 9, 2010 · Chicago Tribune columnist Mary Schmich and artist June Brigman said they've decided it was time to end their work on the seven-day-a-week strip which appears in about three dozen newspapers. The...
Brenda Starr is going to die on January 2, 2011. Who? See, that’s the problem. In another era, nobody would have asked who Brenda Starr is. She’s a comic strip character, the star of a...
