Nicole Hollander

I just learned today that cartoonist Nicole Hollander died on April 23 at the age of 87.  

I first found Hollander in the 1980s, probably when I was just out of college and working in Washington, D.C. Her work must have been in the City Pages.

I still have her first two collections:

The comiclopedia has a great write-up about her life and work, about which I knew just about nothing.

Among many other things, I learned that she began her mid-life switch to graphic arts and cartooning in Chicago's Monadnock Building, which I saw while on a trip to that city last December.

The description of her life makes me realize how few women cartoonists there have been.

Here's the final panel from one of her books, particularly appropriate now:

 
Thanks to Nicole Hollander for the attitude, the funky clotted line, and all the women.