Winnie Winkle
The eponymous character Winnie Winkle was a young, unmarried woman who had to support her parents, making it the second popular comic strip about working women (after "Somebody's Stenog", which debuted in 1918). It was a reflection of the new role of women in society, as could also be seen in comics such as "Tillie the Toiler" from 1921. Writing for the Associated Press in 1993, Hugh A. Mulligan noted, "After women got the vote and joined the work force, family-centered comics were joined by working-girl strips like "Winnie Winkle", "Tillie the Toiler", "Dixie Dugan", "Somebody's Stenog" and "Brenda Starr", which was drawn by a woman, Dale Messick. Almost from the beginning, politics and a social conscience hovered over the drawing board."