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'''Helen Elna Hokinson''' (June 29, 1893 – November 1, 1949) was an American [[cartoonist]] and a staff cartoonist for ''[[The New Yorker]]''. Over a 20-year span, she contributed 68 covers and more than 1,800 cartoons to ''The New Yorker''.<ref name="CooperHewitt">{{cite web|last1=Gibbons|first1=Carey|title=A Hokinson Woman|url=https://www.cooperhewitt.org/2018/04/10/hokinson/|website=Object of the Day|publisher=Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum|
==Life and career==
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In 1920, Hokinson moved to [[New York City]] to work as a fashion illustrator and study at the School of Fine and Applied Arts (now [[Parsons School of Design]]).<ref name="CooperHewitt"/> Encouraged by an instructor she began submitting comic drawings to magazines, and became one of the first cartoonists to be published in ''[[The New Yorker]]'', appearing in the magazine for the first time in the July 4, 1925 issue.<ref name="CooperHewitt"/> 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]]; they were also popularly known as “Hokinson Women”.<ref name="CooperHewitt"/> 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.<ref name="Golemba">{{cite book|last=Golemba|first=Beverly E.|title=Lesser-Known Women: A Biographical Dictionary|year=1992|publisher=Rienner|location=Boulder u.a.|isbn=978-1-55587-301-1|page=[https://archive.org/details/lesserknownwomen0000gole/page/199 199]|url=https://archive.org/details/lesserknownwomen0000gole/page/199}}</ref> 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.
Hokinson died in the [[Eastern Airlines Flight 537]] mid-air collision at [[Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport|Washington National Airport]] on November 1, 1949, en route to an appearance at the opening of a Community Chest Drive in DC.<ref name="AP1949">{{Cite news
==Books==
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