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6th Street Playhouse stages reading of play based on ‘Brenda Starr’ cartoonist

Laura Rohrman grew up in Sonoma County, devoted to her grandmother, so when Rohrman moved to New York in 2000 to become an actress and playwright, it was natural she’d write about her grandma. What makes the story unusual is that Rohrman’s grandmother was Dale Messick, America’s first [...]

By | July 15th, 2013|0 Comments

Goodbye, Brenda Starr

The idea of making a woman newspaper reporter a comic strip heroine was still novel, when a feisty woman named Dale Messick started "Brenda Starr" in Chicago in 1940. Now that some are ready to write an epitaph for the entire newspaper industry, the whole notion seems a [...]

By | December 10th, 2010|1 Comment