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    Bully For Edwina Dumm!

    Edwina Dumm (1893-1990) remains one of the great unheralded ink-slingers of the 20th century.  Edwina, as she signed her work, was doing some of the most beautiful drawings found on the comic strip page from the early 1920s through the 1930s.   The line quality found in her Cap Stubbs comic strip was full of thick and thin bounciness, which helped convey the wonderful action in her strips.  In addition to the quality of the line work was Edwina’s wonderful figure drawings.  It didn’t matter if they were humans or animals.  Edwina’s figures moved effortlessly in an animated fashion, combining a beautiful sense of realistic movement in comic strip bodies.  So…