Mopsy Modes with Uncut Paper Doll by Gladys Parker from 11/21/1948

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Mopsy Modes with Uncut Paper Doll by Gladys Parker from 11/21/1948:
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This is a Mopsy ModesSunday Page by Gladys Parker. Uncut Paper Doll!This wascut from the original newspaper Sunday comics sectionfrom 1948. Size: ~3.5 x14 inches(~Third Page) Paper:a few have light wear, small archival repairs on the backside otherwise: Excellent!Bright Colors! Pulled from Loose Sections!(Please Check Scans) Please include $5.00 Total postage on any size order (USA) $16.00 International Flat Rate. I combine postage on multiple pages. Check out my other sales for more great vintagecomicstrips and Paperdolls.Thanks for Looking!

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Gladys ParkerFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaGladys ParkerParker in 1934Born1910
North Tonawanda, New York, U.S.DiedApril 28, 1966(aged 56)OccupationCartoonist, fashion \"Stookie\" Allen
(–1966,her death)Flapper Fanny, reprinted inThe Funnies, 1937

Gladys Parker(1910 – April 28, 1966) was an American cartoonist for comic strips and a fashion designer in Hollywood. She is best known as the creator of thecomic stripMopsy, which had a long run over three decades. Parker was one of the few female cartoonists working between the 1930s and 1950s.[1]

Contents[hide]

1Background
2Comic strips
3WWII
4Licensing and reprints
5Clothing designs
6Personal life
7See also
8References
9External links

Background[edit]

Growing up inNorth Tonawanda, New York, Parker took dance lessons at the age of seven after winning a \"most beautiful child\" contest. She taught herself to draw while recuperating from a leg injury, often using herself as her model, and began selling cartoons to magazines while still in high school. After graduating from Tonawanda High School, she worked in the office of a lumber yard, and then ran a dressmaking shop from her home.

She was the daughter of Caroline (who died at the age of 35 in 1914) and Wilbert C. Parker of Tonawanda. Her maternal grandparents were John and Anna Gerster of Tonawanda.

At the age of 18, Parker arrived in Manhattan to study fashion illustration. She started her newspaper career with theNew York Graphic, doing a comic strip calledMay and Junie. She moved on toUnited Featuresfor two years andNewspaper Enterprise Associationfor seven years.[2]

Comic strips[edit]Her character,Mopsy, was modeled after herself.Annette Hanshawmodels a dress designed by Parker, 1934

After drawing the flapper stripGay and Her Gangin 1928-29, she took overEthel Hays\'Flapper Fanny Sayspanel, which she did for NEA from 1930 to 1936. She also did a comic strip series forLux Soapduring the 1930s.[3]DevelopingMopsyin 1939, Parker modeled the character on herself. In 1946, she recalled, \"I got the idea for Mopsy when the cartoonistRube Goldbergsaid my hair looked like a mop. That was several years ago, and she has been my main interest ever since.\"[2]

TheMopsySunday strip, added in 1945, gave Parker an opportunity to draw her fashion creations in a sidebar feature of paper dolls, titled \"Mopsy Modes.\"

WWII[edit]

DuringWorld War II, Parker created the stripBetty G.I.for theWomen\'s Army Corps, and she also stepped in to draw Russell Keaton\'sFlyin\' Jennyfrom 1942 until 1944 when his assistant Marc Swayze took over.[3]

Mopsy held such wartime jobs as a nurse and a munitions-plant worker, and the feature grew in popularity. After World War II ended, Mopsy was fired from her defense job in 1947 and went back to civilian life.

Licensing and reprints[edit]

By the end of the 1940s,Mopsywas published in 300 newspapers. In 1947,Mopsybegan inSt. John Publications\'Pageant of Comics#1. Two years later, St. John gave her a title of her own, andMopsyran for 19 issues (February 1949 to September 1953). Charlton Comics reprinted several of those comic books in 1951. In 1955,Berkley Bookspublished aMopsypaperback collection. St. John also ranMopsyas filler pages in its romance comics.

Clothing designs[edit]

Under the name Gladys Parker Designs, her clothing line was sold in stores as early as 1934, capitalizing on her fame as the artist ofFlapper Fanny Says. Parker also designed for films, such as her 1940 white sharkskin suit worn by actressLouise Platt. Living in Hollywood with her two black cats, Parker also wrote a daily column, \"Dear Gals and Guys\", during the 1960s.[2]

Personal life[edit]

Living in New York during the 1940s, Parker was married to illustratorBenjamin \"Stookie\" Allen, who drew for pulp magazines and comic books.[2]

Parker was a member of theSociety of Illustratorsand theNational Cartoonists Society. When she retired in 1965,Mopsyretired with her. She was 56 when she died of lung cancer in 1966.