Ruth Atkinson

R. Atkinson (June 2, 1918 – June 1, 1997),[a] was an American cartoonist and pioneering female comic book writer-artist who created the long-running Marvel Comics character Millie the Model and co-created Patsy Walker.

[6] Born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Ruth Atkinson as an infant moved with her family to upstate New York.

[8] Fellow female artists Fran Hopper, Lily Renée, and Marcia Snyder also worked for Iger, where one of the business partners was a woman, Ruth Roche.

[11] Atkinson later drew true-life adventures for Eastern Color Printing's Heroic Comics, as well for some of the first romance comics, including Lev Gleason Publications' Boy Meets Girl and Boy Loves Girl, through the early 1950s.

[4] Her brother, horse-racing Hall of Fame jockey Ted Atkinson, died in 2005.