Mollie Slott

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Mollie Slott (April 19, 1893 - January 24, 1967) kept the Chicago Tribune - New York Daily News Syndicate running in its mid-century glory days. She discovered female comic strip pioneer Dale Messick while working as an assistant to Joseph M. Patterson. Mollie Slott eventually became the editor.

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• Time Magazine article
• The Art of the Funnies, by R.C. Harvey (p. 95, 111, 114, 144)
• A Century of Women Cartoonists, by Trina Robbins (p. 64)
• Comic Art in America, by Stephen D. Becker (p. 223)
• The Encyclopedia of American Comics, ed. by Ron Goulart (p. 48, 65)
• The World Encyclopedia of Comics, ed. by Maurice Horn (p. 488, 708)