The Women of Edmund Dulac
The American Weekly Illustrations
The three series featured here are “Famous Vamps of History” from 1929, “Follies That Destroyed Famous Queens” from 1934 and “Fighting Women” from 1938. The Vamps series was the first to print clearly, as the Hearst Corporation changed to a better-quality newsprint and reduced the size of the tabloid. This allowed Dulac to paint the image larger, so that by reducing, it gained sharpness. Queens was an overlapping theme, and Semiramis starred in both. Fighting Women was more of an action animated series, with several women in battle, mostly against men foes. Sadly, few triumphed in the end.