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Theresa Hilda D’Alessio (June 15, 1914 – October 13, 2006), better known as Hilda Terry, was an American cartoonist who created the comic strip ''Teena''. It ran in newspapers from 1944 to 1964.〔 After marriage, she usually signed her name Theresa H. D’Alessio. In 1950, she became the first woman allowed to join the National Cartoonists Society. Born Theresa Hilda Fellman in Newburyport, Massachusetts, she was the daughter of a man who lettered roulette wheels. She admired the sports cartoons of Willard Mullin, wanted to become a sports cartoonist and spent time sketching at sports events. She arrived in New York when she was 17 and spent two years working as a waitress at Schrafft's. During the mid-1930s, she reconsidered her career plan after she entered both a sports cartoon and a funny cartoon in a newspaper contest, winning a prize with the funny cartoon.〔 While working as a waitress, she studied fashion illustration at the Art Students League. One of her teachers there was Gregory d'Alessio, and they married in 1938. When a 14-year-old cousin arrived for a visit, Terry got the idea for ''Teena''. The strip began July 1, 1944. She led an active life during the late 1940s, serving as a Camp Fire guardian, a Blue Bird leader, a Horizon Club advisor and an American Youth Hosteler, once leading a group of girls on a ten-day bicycle trip through New England. Comics historian Tom Spurgeon detailed how she broke through barriers at the once all-male National Cartoonists Society in 1950: :Terry was early on a magazine cartoonist, and is said to have placed work in such high-profile outlets as ''The Saturday Evening Post'' and ''The New Yorker''. Terry's work on ''Teena'' displays the clarity and precision of magazine-style cartooning, which must have helped it stand out, particularly in its initial years when a more decorative style was still on display in several features. ''Teena'' was a King Features strip, and was licensed briefly to comic books (at Standard) as well. Terry was a member of the Art Students League of New York, where she met her future husband Gregory d'Alessio, who preceded Terry in death. In 1949, d'Alessio submitted his wife's name for membership in the then all-male National Cartoonists Society, putting her on the ballot with magazine cartoonist Barbara Shermund. She was admitted a year later after much debate, and immediately set about bringing more female cartoonists into the fold. She later became an award-winning animator and pioneering contributor to sports-stadium animations, and pursued a variety of personal interests until her death.〔(Spurgeon, Tom. "Hilda Terry, 1914-2006", The Comics Reporter, October 17, 2006. )〕 Once she was a member of the NCS, she proposed Gladys Parker and other women cartoonists for memberships.〔 ==Animation== She drew portraits of ballplayers for baseball stadium scoreboards in the early 1970s and subsequently became a pioneer in early computer animation.〔 She traveled from city to city to create her giant animated portraits of major league players and team mascots.〔Robbins, Trina and Catherine Yronwode. ''Women and the Comics''. Eclipse Books, 1985.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Hilda Terry」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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