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 Photo of Allie Macerty
Allie Mackerty pores over cartoons and articles
to create a Web profile of cartoonist Edwina Dunn. 
 

Writing Intern Explores Pioneering Woman Cartoonist for Library’s Web Site

Allie Mackerty, an English major earning minors in both Popular Culture and Professional Writing, spends her workdays at Ohio State’s Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum getting to know a dead woman. For her professional writing internship, Allie is creating a Web site that pays tribute to the life and work of Edwina Dumm, an Ohio native and the first female political cartoonist. She is best known for the creation and six-decade run of Cap Stubbs and Tippie, a cartoon that first ran in The Columbus Monitor in 1918.

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