Virginia Clark (December 22, 1899 – June 27, 1991), better known as Virginia Huget, was a prolific and versatile American comic strip artist and writer. She is known for her comic strips depicting flappers and for broadening the flapper image by depicting them as young working women as opposed to freewheeling and carefree, which was the commonly used stereotype at the time.
Biography
Life
Huget was born in
Dallas
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, Texas in 1899. There she met and married Coon Williams Hudzietz. She changed her last name to Huget when she sold her first comic in 1926. She studied at the Art Institute of Chicago.
Bell Syndicate
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in 1926. In 1927 Huget created ''Babs in Society,'' a full-page Sunday color strip. Other strips she produced in this form were: ''Flora's Fling'' (1928), ''Campus Caper'' (1928), ''Babs'' (1929), ''Double Dora (1929)'' ''Miss Aladdin'' (1929). She also made the black-and-white strips ''Molly the Manicure Girl'' (1928) and ''Campus Capers'' (1929). Strips from ''Molly the Manicure Girl'' are kept in the Library of Congress. In 1931 and 1932 Huget illustrated
's style, drawing his comic strip '' Skippy'' when he was unable to because of his alcoholism. Huget began drawing
Don Flowers
Don Flowers (1908–1968) was an American cartoonist best known for his syndicated panel ''Glamor Girls''. Flowers was noted for his fluid ink work, prompting Coulton Waugh to write that Flowers displayed "about the finest line ever bequeathed ...
' ''Oh, Diana!'', an adventure strip, in 1944 under the name Virginia Clark, eventually transforming it into a teen strip, which was a more popular genre at the time.