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Marjorie Henderson Buell (December 11, 1904–May 30, 1993; née Marjorie Lyman Henderson) was an American cartoonist who worked under the pen name Marge. She was best known as the creator of ''Little Lulu''. Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Buell was 16 when her first cartoon was published. In 1925, she created her first syndicated comic strip, ''The Boy Friend'', which ran through 1926. Marge was friends with ''Oz'' author Ruth Plumly Thompson and illustrated her fantasy novel ''King Kojo'' (1933). ==Life and career== Marjorie Lyman Henderson was born in 1904 in Philadelphia. Homeschooled until she was 11 or 12, she and her two sisters had a talent for art, and at 16 she sold her first cartoon to the ''Public Ledger''. Her work appeared in such humor magazines as ''Collier's'', ''Judge'', ''Life''. By the late 1920s she worked under the name "Marge" and had a syndicated comic strip with ''The Boy Friend''. This and another strip of hers, ''Dashing Dot'', both featuring female leads. In 1934 ''The Saturday Evening Post'' requested Buell to create a strip to replace Carl Anderson's ''Henry''. Buell created a little girl character in place of ''Henry''s little boy as she believed "a girl could get away with more fresh stunts that in a boy would seem boorish". The first single-panel instalment ran in the ''Post'' on February 23, 1935; in it, Lulu appears as a flower girl at a wedding and strews the aisle with banana peels. The single-panel strip continued in the ''Post'' until the December 30, 1945, issue, and continued from then as a regular comic strip. Buell herself ceased drawing the strip in 1947, and in 1950 ''Little Lulu'' became a daily syndicated by Chicago Tribune–New York News Syndicate and ran until 1969. After she stopped drawing the strip, Buell herself only drew Lulu for the lucrative Kleenex advertisements. The ''Little Lulu'' panel continued to run weekly in ''The Saturday Evening Post'' until December 30, 1944. Buell retained the rights, unusual for the time. In 1950, ''Little Lulu'' became a daily syndicated comic strip. Buell marketed ''Little Lulu'' widely throughout the 1940s. Paramount Pictures approached Buell in 1943 with a proposal to develop a series of animated shorts. She traveled to New York to meet with Paramount executives and tour the animation facilities, and there was introduced to William C. Erskine, who became her business representative. Thereafter Little Lulu was widely merchandised, and was the first mascot for Kleenex tissues; from 1952 to 1965 the character appeared in an elaborate animated billboard in Times Square in New York City designed by Artkraft Strauss. The character appeared in comic books, animated cartoons, greeting cards and more. ''Little Lulu'' comic books, popular internationally, were translated into Arabic, Dutch, Finnish, French, Japanese, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish and Greek. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Marge (cartoonist)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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