American illustrator and painter who is remembered chiefly for having illustrated the pulp magazine Weird Tales.
Margaret Hedda Johnson graduated from Girard Grammar School and attended McKinley High School in Chicago, where Walt Disney was a classmate. ("I finished; he didn't," she later remarked.) She graduated from McKinley in 1919. As editor of the high school newspaper, Margaret Johnson was able to tell Walt Disney whether or not she would include any of his drawings in the McKinley newspaper.
Margaret was trained to be a fashion illustrator, but found work difficult to find during the Great Depression. With a young son and elderly mother to support, she looked up Weird Tales, which was also located in Chicago.
Margaret's sensual illustrations for Weird Tales will not soon be forgotten.
Margaret Hedda Johnson graduated from Girard Grammar School and attended McKinley High School in Chicago, where Walt Disney was a classmate. ("I finished; he didn't," she later remarked.) She graduated from McKinley in 1919. As editor of the high school newspaper, Margaret Johnson was able to tell Walt Disney whether or not she would include any of his drawings in the McKinley newspaper.
Margaret was trained to be a fashion illustrator, but found work difficult to find during the Great Depression. With a young son and elderly mother to support, she looked up Weird Tales, which was also located in Chicago.
Margaret's sensual illustrations for Weird Tales will not soon be forgotten.
American illustrator and painter who is remembered chiefly for having illustrated the pulp magazine Weird Tales.
Margaret Hedda Johnson graduated from Girard Grammar School and attended McKinley High School in Chicago, where Walt Disney was a classmate. ("I finished; he didn't," she later remarked.) She graduated from McKinley in 1919. As editor of the high school newspaper, Margaret Johnson was able to tell Walt Disney whether or not she would include any of his drawings in the McKinley newspaper.
Margaret was trained to be a fashion illustrator, but found work difficult to find during the Great Depression. With a young son and elderly mother to support, she looked up Weird Tales, which was also located in Chicago.
Margaret's sensual illustrations for Weird Tales will not soon be forgotten.
Margaret Hedda Johnson graduated from Girard Grammar School and attended McKinley High School in Chicago, where Walt Disney was a classmate. ("I finished; he didn't," she later remarked.) She graduated from McKinley in 1919. As editor of the high school newspaper, Margaret Johnson was able to tell Walt Disney whether or not she would include any of his drawings in the McKinley newspaper.
Margaret was trained to be a fashion illustrator, but found work difficult to find during the Great Depression. With a young son and elderly mother to support, she looked up Weird Tales, which was also located in Chicago.
Margaret's sensual illustrations for Weird Tales will not soon be forgotten.
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