Marjorie Henderson Buell

Marjorie Lyman Henderson was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. At age 16, her first cartoon was published. In 1925 she created her first syndicated comic strip, The Boy Friend, which ran through 1926. In 1934, she was hired by The Saturday Evening Post to create a syndicated cartoon, and her creation, Little Lulu, ran weekly in that paper for ten years. In 1935 she married C. Addison Buell. In 1950, Little Lulu became a daily syndicated cartoon strip. She retired in 1971, selling the rights to Little Lulu to Western Publishing.