Lou Rogers
Lou Rogers | |
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Notable work | The Gimmicks, Rise of the Red Alders, Ska-Denge |
Spouse | Howard Smith |
Lou Rogers (November 26, 1879 – March 11, 1952) was a
Family and youth
Born Annie Lucasta Rogers in 1879 in the lumbering town of
Becoming a cartoonist
Around 1900 Rogers decided on a career in art and enrolled at the Massachusetts Normal Art School,
- She has what ninety-nine out of a hundred lack, the ability to see the way to get the idea into the picture. And she has forty ideas about everything. So far she is the only woman artist in the world who is seeking her complete artistic destiny in the cartoon. . . She means to win. And she will keep on meaning until she does.[8]
The Woman's Journal, a pro-suffrage newspaper, highlighted Rogers's contribution at about the same time, describing her as the "only woman artist to devote all her time to feminism."[9] Her plan to distribute her suffrage cartoons to newspapers and for campaign literature was announced in 1914.[10] In 1917, Margaret Sanger founded the Birth Control Review and hired Rogers as the Art Director.[6] As late as 1924 a news story touted her as the "World's Only Woman Cartoonist," which Rogers herself corrected.[4] New York City alone claimed, among others, resident cartoonist-illustrator Laura Foster and Edwina Dumm, as well as Cornelia Barns and Alice Beach Winter, who contributed to the radical avant-garde magazine, The Masses:[11]
Gallery
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Cartoon by Lou Rogers, "Tearing Off the Bonds." The Modern Woman, Judge, 19 October 1912.
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Cartoon by Lou Rogers, "Welding in the Missing Link." The Modern Woman, Judge, 24 August 1912.
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Cartoon by Lou Rogers, " Rushing the Growlers." The Modern Woman, Judge, 23 October 1913.
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Cartoon by Lou Rogers, "Transferring the Mother Habit to Politics." The Modern Woman, Judge, 31 January 1914.
Suffragist, feminist, socialist in Greenwich Village
In the atmosphere of
Rogers's endorsement of socialism paralleled her support of women and reflected a philosophy of human liberation.
- If the cartoon has never appealed to women workers, isn't it because it has never covered a class of interests with direct bearing on them? Then it seems to me of great moment that national and municipal issues should be handled from the woman's standpoint as well as the man's.[8]
She published cartoons in the socialist paper,
Author, illustrator, radio host
The 1920s was a decade of productivity for Rogers. She contracted with the
The success of the Gimmicks persuaded Rogers to try her hand at children's books. The Rise of the Red Alders was published by Harper and Brothers in 1928.
Later years
In 1925 Rogers purchased an old farm in
By the early 1950s, Rogers was diagnosed with
Postscript
In 1913, Cartoons Magazine had written of Rogers: "Her pen is destined to win battles for the Woman's Movement and her name will be recorded when the history of the early days of the fight for equal rights is written."[8]
To commemorate the 75th anniversary of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1995, the National Museum of Women in the Arts hosted an exhibition, "Artful Advocacy: Cartoons of the Woman Suffrage Movement." Featured artists were Rogers, Nina Allender, and Blanche Ames.[14][43] Eight decades later, the prophecy had been realized.
References
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k Rogers, Lou (1927). "Lightning Speed Through Life". The Nation. 124 (3223): 395–397.
- ^ a b Olsen, Irene (1947). History of Patten Academy. Patten, ME: Trustees of Patten Academy.
- ^ Alford, John A. (February 1975). "Lore A. Rogers, A Rare Species". American Society for Microbiology News. 41 (2).
- ^ a b "Maine Girl World's Only Woman Cartoonist". Lewiston Daily Sun. 28 Jan 1924.
- ^ Rogers, Lou (February 1908). "In the Screech Owl Family [cartoon]". Judge. 54.
- ^ a b Lepore, Jill (October 2014). "The Surprising Origin Story of Wonder Woman". Smithsonian Magazine. Smithsonian. Retrieved 7 March 2015.
- ^ Class of 1913 (1912). PA Mirror '13. Patten, ME: Patten Academy.
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: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ a b c d "A Woman Destined to Do Big Things". Cartoons Magazine. 3 (2): 76–77. 1913.
- ^ "Lou Rogers, Cartoonist". Woman's Journal and Suffrage News. 44 (31): 1–2. 2 August 1913.
- ^ "Cartoon Service by Lou Rogers". Woman's Journal and Suffrage News. 45: 301. 14 November 1914.
- ISBN 0877225133.
- ^ ISBN 0826314589.
- ^ a b Bass, Holly (1 September 1995). "Artful Advocacy: Cartoons From the Woman Suffrage Movement". Washington City Paper. Retrieved 19 January 2013.
- ^ ISBN 0934678081.
- ^ Colby, Frank Moore, ed. (1914). The New International Year Book. New York: Dodd, Mead and Company. p. 531.
- ^ Kraft, Barbara S. (1978). The Peace Ship: Henry Ford's Pacifist Adventure In The First World War. New York: Macmillan. pp. 301, 304.
- ^ "Guests on the Ford Peace Ship and the Places They Hail From". Bismarck Daily Tribune. 10 Dec 1915.
- ^ "Suffrage Cartoons for Street Crowds". The New York Times. 19 Jul 1915.
- ^ "Suffrage Campaign to End in a Whirl". The New York Times. 29 Oct 1915.
- ^ "Cartoonist to Present Suffrage". Watertown Daily Times. 30 Aug 1915. Retrieved 19 Jan 2013.
- ^ "Not a Heckler as 'Wilsonettes' Talk to Ford Employees in Long Island City". New York Herald. 26 Oct 1916.
- ^ "Suffrage Cartoonist". The Glimmerglass Daily. 28 Jul 1915. Retrieved 22 Jan 2013.
- ^ "Woman's Sphere". The New York Call. 15 Feb 1919. Retrieved 19 Jan 2013.
- ^ "Cartoonist". Birth Control Review. 2–6. 1918–1922.
- ^ Hougan, Jim. "Margaret Sanger – Biography". Reference Center for Marxist Studies. Retrieved 22 Jan 2013.
- ^ Rogers, Lou (December 1923). "The Gimmick Santy Claus". The Ladies Home Journal: 12–13, 38.
- ^ Telegram Staff (2 August 1924). ""Foreigners'" Friend Studies Them at Close Range". The Bridgeport Telegram.
- ^ "The FictionMags Index". Archived from the original on 24 May 2013. Retrieved 18 Jan 2013.
- ^ Stolzer, Rob. "Rogers, Annie (Lou) - Rob Stolzer's Original Comic Art Gallery at ComicArtFans.com". Retrieved 18 January 2013.
- ^ "Howard Smith". Retrieved 17 Jan 2013.
- ^ "New York, New York City Marriage Records, 1829-1940". Family Search. Retrieved 14 February 2016.
- ^ Rogers, Lou (April 13, 1927). "These Modern Women: Lightning Speed Through Life's". The Nation. 124 (3223): 395–397.
- ISBN 1558610073.
- ^ Rogers, Lou (1928). The Rise of the Red Alders. New York, NY: Harper & Brothers. p. 190.
- ^ Rogers, Lou (1929). Ska-Denge (Beaver for Revenge). New York, NY: Harper & Brothers.
- ^ "RADIO PROGRAMME FOR TO-DAY". Brooklyn Standard Union.
- ^ "ANTIQUE LAPEL PIN N.B.C. LOU ROGERS ANIMAL NEWS CLUB". Retrieved 17 January 2013.
- ^ Bruere, Martha Bensley & Mary Ritter Beard (Eds.) (1934). Laughing their Way; Women's Humor in America. New York, NY: MacMillan Co. p. 295.
- ^ New Milford CT town records, Vol 79. June 19, 1925. p. 163.
- ^ "Annie Rogers Smith, Certificate of Death". New York State Department of Health. 11 March 1952.
- ^ Bernanke, Max & Florence (12 March 1952). "Condolences". Western Union Telegram.
- ^ Myers, Laura (20 August 1995). "Cartoonists' Role in Suffrage Debate Focus of Exhibit". The Daily Gazette.
Further reading
- Rachel Schreiber, "'Breed!': the graphic satire of the Birth Control Review," in Art, Politics and the Pamphleteer, eds. Tormey, Whiteley (London: Bloomsbury, 2021.)