Isabelle Émilie de Tessier (1847 – 1890)
who worked under the
pseudonym
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Marie Duval, was a French
cartoonist
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, known as co-creator of the seminal cartoon character ''
Ally Sloper
Alexander "Ally" Sloper is the eponymous fictional character of the British comic strip ''Ally Sloper''. First appearing in 1867, he is considered one of the earliest comic strip characters and he is regarded as the first recurring character in c ...
''.
Biography
As co-creator of ''Ally Sloper'' with her husband
Charles Henry Ross
Charles Henry Ross (1835 – 12 October 1897) was an English writer and cartoonist.
Biography
Ross created the fictional character Ally Sloper for the British magazine '' Judy'' in 1867, the popular character was spun off into his own comic, '' ...
, 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. Her work also appeared in British
penny papers
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and comics from the 1860s to the 1880s. When the Ally Sloper character was given his own magazine, Duval's comic strips were reprinted without her signature.
[Daniel Fondanèche ''Paralittératures'' 2005 Page 449 "Ce n'est que le 3 mai 1884 qu'Ally Sloper devient un personnage permanent de la revue Judy grâce à la plume de l'ancienne actrice Isabelle Émilie de Tessier, conjointe de l'anglais Charles Ross et qui signe ses œuvres du pseudonyme de .. "]
Duval was also an actress in the English theatre and the author of ''Queens and Kings and Other Things'' (1874), a collection of illustrated nonsense verse published under the pseudonym of Princess Hesse Schwartzbourg.
References
Sources
''Ally Sloper''Don Markstein's Toonopedia
Andy's Early Comics Archive
External links
Top hats off to Marie Duval, a lost Victorian cartoonist sensationThe Guardian, 27 Oct 2014
The Marie Duval Archive
1847 births
1890 deaths
19th-century French women artists
French cartoonists
French women cartoonists
French comics artists
French female comics artists
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