Simply signing her work "Elizabeth," her modern, stylized art was used to illustrate fashion features, horoscope pages, tables of contents, and other various ornamental pieces.
[1] Berube was born in Brooklyn, New York, where she was influenced by Pogo and EC Comics, as well as the movie Fantasia.
After leaving SVA, Berube became a colorist and assistant editor for Archie Comics, continuing at that publisher in various freelance capacities until 1975.
"[citation needed] In 1969 she began working on DC’s romance comics line,[1] bringing more modern, stylized art to the genre, which was still being drawn in the realistic style that had become parodied (particularly by Roy Lichtenstein) in Pop Art.
At some point during this period, Berube was offered the position of editor of the whole line, but as a single mother in her mid-twenties, she preferred the flexibility of working from home that pencilling and coloring allowed, and declined.