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Marie Duval

French cartoonist and actress

Also known as: Emilie de Tessier

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history of comic strips

In comic strip: The 19th century
…Ross, it was his wife, Marie Duval (pseudonym of the French actress Emilie de Tessier), Europe’s first (and still obstinately unrecognized) professional woman cartoonist, who developed the character Ally Sloper. Featured in roughly 130 strips in Judy—an imitator of Punch magazine—and in albums published separately between 1869 and the 1880s,…
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