Background
Mergen was born in Omaha, Nebraska in 1906.
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Anne Mergen
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She studied commercial art in Chicago, before moving with her family to Miami in 1926.
Career
Hired by the Miami Daily News in 1933, she was the first woman editorial cartoonist in the United States, and for most of her career the only woman in the United States. working as an editorial cartoonist. She worked as a fashion advertising artist for a local department store before joining the Miami Daily News, part of the Cox newspaper chain, in 1933 as its editorial cartoonist. She worked from a home studio and was the mother to two children.
She retired in 1956, but continued publishing cartoons as late as 1959.
She produced more than 7,000 cartoons on a range of subjects from politics and tourism to the environment. Her work appeared in the Atlanta Journal, Dayton News, and Miami Daily News.
She died in 1994. Her cartoon subjects included the great depression, World World War II, nuclear power and the Cold War.
Many newspapers containing her cartoons are collected at the Library of Congress, as well as the Ohio State University Cartoon Research Library and the Historical Museum of Southern Florida (now known as HistoryMiami). Mergen was a 2011/2012 nominee for the Florida Women"s Hall of Fame.
