Etta Hulme (December 22, 1923 – June 25, 2014) was an American editorial cartoonist. Her syndicated cartoons started appearing in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram in 1972.[1] Her drawing style has been described as "understated".[2]Star-Telegram editorial page director Tommy Denton called her "one of the most insightful and provocative cartoonists in the country."[2]
Hulme was born Etta Grace Parks in Somerville, Texas, on December 22, 1923 to Charles and Grace (Redford) Parks. She submitted cartoons to The New Yorker as a teenager, although they were not published. She graduated from the University of Texas with a fine art degree and worked for the Walt Disney animation studio in California, under the tutelage of Ward Kimball. In the 1950s, she did freelance work for The Texas Observer. She married Vernon C. Hulme in 1952 in Kitzingen, Germany, and went on to have four children, two boys and two girls.[3]
After surviving a heart attack in early 2009, Hulme died at her home in Arlington, Texas, on June 24, 2014, at the age of 90.[2]
References
^Cartooning Texas : one hundred years of cartoon art in the Lone Star State. Forman, Maury B., 1950-, Calvert, Robert A. College Station, Tex.: Texas A & M University Press. 1993. ISBN0890965609. OCLC27975313.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)