Ally Sloper

comic strip

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history of comic strips

  • King, Frank: Gasoline Alley
    In comic strip: The 19th century

    Though the strip Ally Sloper is often credited to the English novelist Charles Henry 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…

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