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Feb. 15th, 2014
Tugboat Tessie
Feb. 15th, 2014 04:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
his_spiffynesssNow here's something a bit different from the Golden Age: A female lead character that's not the typical beautiful ingenue or sexpot.
Tugboat Tessie was a backup feature from the short lived Seven Seas Comics by Manning Lee Stokes. Tessie was clearly inspired by the "Rosie the Riveter" image of working women of the war era. Being a lady sailor, it's kind of clear Stokes was taking the dialog from Popeye.
( From Seven Seas Comics #1 )
Tugboat Tessie was a backup feature from the short lived Seven Seas Comics by Manning Lee Stokes. Tessie was clearly inspired by the "Rosie the Riveter" image of working women of the war era. Being a lady sailor, it's kind of clear Stokes was taking the dialog from Popeye.
( From Seven Seas Comics #1 )