Emilie de Tessier
Encyclopedia
Isabelle Emilie de Tessier (born 1850 in Paris
) who worked under the pseudonym
Marie Duval, was a French
cartoonist
, known as co-creator of the seminal cartoon character Ally Sloper
.
Duval was also an actress in the English theatre and the author of Queens and Kings and Other Things (1880), a collection of illustrated nonsense verse published under the pseudonym of Princess Hesse Schwartzbourg.
Paris
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) who worked under the pseudonym
Pseudonym
A pseudonym is a name that a person assumes for a particular purpose and that differs from his or her original orthonym...
Marie Duval, was a French
France
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cartoonist
Cartoonist
A cartoonist is a person who specializes in drawing cartoons. This work is usually humorous, mainly created for entertainment, political commentary or advertising...
, known as co-creator of the seminal cartoon character Ally Sloper
Ally Sloper
Alexander "Ally" Sloper is one of the earliest fictional comic strip characters. Red-nosed and blustery, an archetypal lazy schemer often found "sloping" through alleys to avoid his landlord and other creditors, he was created for the British magazine Judy, by writer and fledgling artist Charles H...
.
Biography
As co-creator of Ally Sloper with her husband Charles Henry Ross, 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. When the Ally Sloper character was given his own magazine, Duval's comic strips were reprinted without her signature.Duval was also an actress in the English theatre and the author of Queens and Kings and Other Things (1880), a collection of illustrated nonsense verse published under the pseudonym of Princess Hesse Schwartzbourg.
External links
- Emilie de Tessier biography on Lambiek Comiclopedia
- Ally Sloper: The First Comics Superstar? Article on Image & Narrative