The parade of death marches on and on: Brenda Starr's creator

[BurtWorm]

Will it never end? Has it no decency at long last?


http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-Obit-Dale-Messick.html?ei=5094&en=491aa2c4c628c3cb&hp=&ex=1112932800&partner=homepage&pagewanted=print&position=



April 7, 2005
'Brenda Starr' Creator Dies at 98
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Filed at 3:08 p.m. ET

PENNGROVE, Calif. (AP) -- Dale Messick, whose long-running comic strip ``Brenda Starr, Reporter'' gave her entry into the male world of the funny pages, has died at age 98.

Messick, whose strip ran in 250 newspapers at its peak in the 1950s, died Tuesday, said her daughter, Starr Rohrman, who had been caring for her mother in Sonoma County.

Messick -- who jettisoned her given name Dalia to further her career -- once said Brenda had ``everything I didn't have.'' But she charmed acquaintances with spunk and style worthy of her redheaded creation.

Mixing hot copy with high fashion, Brenda plunged from one thrilling adventure to another, sassing her tough-talking editor, Mr. Livwright, and sometimes filing her copy with the only person left in the newsroom, the cleaning woman.

[Dookus]

1. Good god,...

she was still alive? I had no idea!

I loved Brenda Starr when I was a kid. I had a crush on Basil St. John.

[Demit]

2. I never quite got Hank (a sort of precursor to Pat on SNL)