Anne Briardy Mergen

Anne Briardy Mergen
Born 1906
Omaha, Nebraska
Died 1994
Nationality  United States
Area(s) cartoonist, editorial cartoonist

Anne Briardy Mergen (1906–1994) was an editorial cartoonist who lived in Miami, Florida. Hired by the Miami Daily News in 1933, she was one of the first woman editorial cartoonists in the United States,[1] and for most of her career was the only woman in the U.S. working as an editorial cartoonist.[2]

Life

Mergen was born in Omaha, Nebraska, in 1906. She studied commercial art in Chicago[2] before moving with her family to Miami in 1926.[3] She worked as a fashion-advertising artist for a local department store before joining the Miami Daily News, part of the Cox newspaper chain, in 1933, as its editorial cartoonist. She worked from a home studio and was the mother to two children.[2]

Mergen retired in 1956, but continued publishing cartoons as late as 1959.[2] She produced more than 7,000 cartoons on a range of subjects from politics and tourism to the environment. Her work appeared in the Atlanta Journal, Dayton News, and Miami Daily News. She died in 1994.[2]

Work

Mergen's cartoon subjects included the Great Depression, World War II, nuclear power, and the Cold War. Her cartoons were donated to the Cartoon Research Library by her grandchildren, Matthew Bernhardt and Christine Hoverman, and are held as the Anne Mergen Collection which contains 600 originals.[2] Many newspapers containing her cartoons are collected at the Library of Congress, as well as the Ohio State University Cartoon Research Library and the Historical Museum of Southern Florida (now known as HistoryMiami). Mergen was a 2011/2012 nominee for the Florida Women's Hall of Fame.[3]

References

  1. ↑ Anne Mergen; Florida Cartoons June 21, 2008 - September 04, 2008; Traveling Exhibition, History Miami. Archived June 4, 2012 at the Wayback Machine.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Anne Mergen Archived May 11, 2008, at the Wayback Machine. Library News Ohio State University
  3. 1 2 Florida Women's Hall of Fame Archived 2013-10-18 at the Wayback Machine.
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