Happy Birthday: Barbara Slate
Born in 1947, Barbara Slate started out in greeting cards before moving to comics. In 1974, she met with a greeting card buyer from Bloomingdales and showed him 24 feminist greeting cards she had designed. Thus, the "Ms. Liz" line was born.
Ms. Liz then became a comic strip in Cosmopolitan, and then an animated feature on The Today Show. Next, Slate spoke to Jenette Kahn of DC Comics, who hired her to create Angel Love. From there, Slate moved to Marvel to create Yuppies from Hell and Sweet XVI (which won a Forbie Award in 1991), and then began working on Barbie and Barbie Fashion (which won the Parent’s Choice Award in 1992 and 1993).
Slate has also written for Disney Comics (Pocahontas and Beauty and the Beast) and Archie Comics, among others. Currently Slate writes for Archie Comics, teaches graphic novel and sequential art workshops, and has a syndicated column called “You Can Do A Graphic Novel.”
One of the greats — and a great person. I've been a major Angel Love fan forever, and I wish DC would print it all up in a trade.
I could not agree more with Mike. I became a fan after reading Yuppies from Hell. Barbara belongs in the Pantheon of great female cartoonist/writers. RCL
I LOVE Barbara Slate! (Please don't tell her husband –or my wife). She's one smart, talented and exciting woman!
Just for the record, Rick, I am not married. You married guys, All talk no action.XOXOBarbaraXOXO