Helen E. Hokinson: Difference between revisions

In 1920, Hokinson moved to [[New York City]] and began her career as a cartoonist. She was one of the first cartoonists to be published in ''[[The New Yorker]]'', appearing in the magazine for the first time in 1925. She specialized in wealthy, plump, and ditsy society women and their foibles, referring to them as 'My Best Girls', those [[dowager]] denizens of woman's clubs, beauty parlors, art galleries, summer resorts, and Lane Bryant. According to [[James Thurber]] and [[Brendan Gill]], Hokinson relied on the magazine's staff writers to provide captions for her cartoons, a common practice at ''The New Yorker'' in the [[Harold Ross]] era, until entering into a professional partnership with James Reid Parker in 1931. Hokinson and Parker also provided a monthly cartoon, "The Dear Man," for the ''[[Ladies' Home Journal]]'' as well as occasional cartoons for advertising campaigns and other magazines.