Today we present a 12-part series from 1919: American Women Who Work! Attractively illustrated featurettes on artists, actresses, stenographers, society girls, and more!

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If success on the comics page is measured in how well an artist conveys a strip’s premise by title alone, then Tad’s A Picture Story With Just One Word is due high marks.  If success is measured in how funny a strip is, well, I’ll let you be the judge…

OK, so there’s no Ziggy; adorable as he is, his timeframe falls out of the purview of this site… But we’ve got Skygack!

Start with the strip below and continue through the end of August, 1908!

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This time around we have the all too brief tale of Bessie’s Vacation and the just plain odd Summer Pirates (more or less a return of The Summer Girl with a pirate twist), plus a few one-offs like the one above.  To make things easy, I’ve placed them all in an Eleanor Schorer directory, just for you.  I was looking to add a little background info on Schorer, but our pals over at the Stripper’s Guide have already done such a fine job that I’ll just point you here and here and call it a day.