Cartoon trivia smiler . . .

Birthday Salute to Marge.

Marjorie Henderson Buell (December 11, 1904 – May 30, 1993) was an American cartoonist who worked under the pen name Marge. She was best known as the creator of Little Lulu.

Marjorie Henderson Buell was a pioneering female cartoonist who had a long career in the industry. She took her Little Lulu creation from a one-panel cartoon in 1935 into an international marketing phenomenon and in all that time she kept the rare option of creative control for herself.

Marjorie Henderson Buell marketed Little Lulu widely throughout the 1940s and Little Lulu appeared in comic books, cartoons, greeting cards, etc., etc.. Little Lulu comic books were translated into Arabic, Finnish, Japanese, Portuguese, Spanish and Greek.

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