Saturday, September 24, 2022

Today in Comics History, September 24: Happy birthday, Lottie Dod!

Born on this day in 1877: sports great Charlotte "Lottie" Dod, who won the Wimbledon Ladies' Singles Championship five times and won a silver medal at the 1908 Summer Olympics in archery!


from "Moose's Odd and Amazing Sports Reports" in Archie #515 (Archie, December 2001), script by Mike Pellowski, pencils by Rex Lindsey

Moose has clearly taken some liberties in spotlighting Ms. Dod, as she neither looked or dressed like that comic. Here's the real Lottie:


Happy birthday, Lottie!

1 comment:

Blam said...

Annie Hall's Favorite Athlete!