Isabelle Emilie de Tessier (born 1850 in Paris) who worked under the pseudonym Marie Duval, was a French cartoonist, known as co-creator of the seminal cartoon character Ally Sloper. For the game see 1850 (board game. 1850 ( MDCCCL) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link Paris (ˈpærɨs in English; in French) is the Capital of France and the country's largest city A pseudonym is a fictitious alternative to a person's legal name (see Alias) This article is about the country For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic France topics. A cartoonist is a person who specializes in drawing Cartoons Traditionally much of this work was and still is humorous and is intended primarily for entertainment purposes Alexander "Ally" Sloper is one of the earliest fictional Comic strip characters [1]
Biography
As co-creator of Ally Sloper with her husband Charles Henry Ross, Tessier was one of the first female cartoonists in Europe, and one of four female contributors to the British satirical magazine Fun edited by Ross. In addition to the Ally Sloper comic strips, Duval produced numerous spot illustrations, cartoons and full page comic strips for the magazine during the mid-nineteenth century. When the Ally Sloper character was given his own magazine, Duval's comic strips were reprinted without her signature.
Duval was also an actress in the English theatre and the author of Queens and Kings and Other Things (1880), a collection of illustrated nonsense verse published under the pseudonym of Princess Hesse Schwartzbourg.
References
- Ally Sloper Don Markstein's Toonopedia
- Ally Sloper Andy's Early Comics Archive
Footnotes
- ^ Kunzle, David (Summer, 1986). Marie Duval: A Caricaturist Rediscovered. Woman's Art Journal. JSTOR.
External links
- Emilie de Tessier biography on Lambiek Comiclopedia
- Ally Sloper: The First Comics Superstar? Article on Image & Narrative
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