The reaction gave her the idea for a cartoon character, and in 1944, she launched her comic strip Bobby Sox about a teenager named Mimi.

Chronicle writer Carl Nolte noted the role of Links and her husband in San Francisco history: Alexander Arguello died in 1966 after the couple had been married for 25 years.

In 1957, she described her working methods: The pilot for a proposed series based on Emmy Lou aired as a second-season episode of Mister Ed.

[4] By the time her children became adults, Links felt the strip no longer represented teens, as she told columnist Caen, "Everything I know about teenagers today is unprintable."

[1] She then began doing ceramic sculptures and working for Hallmark as an illustrator of greeting cards, developing a group of child characters for a series called Kidlinks.