Mopsy was a comic strip created in 1937[2] by Gladys Parker, who was one of the few female cartoonists of the era.

With the Sunday strip, added in 1945, Parker was able to expand her fashion concepts into a sidebar series of paper dolls, titled "Mopsy Modes.

During World War II, Mopsy held such wartime jobs as a nurse and a munitions-plant worker, and the feature grew in popularity.

[6] After World War II ended, Mopsy was fired from her defense job in 1947 and went back to civilian life.

[7] Two years later, St. John gave her a title of her own, and Mopsy ran for 19 issues (February 1948 to September 1953).