Hilda Terry

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Hilda Terry (June 15, 1914 – October 13, 2006) (born Theresa Hilda Fellman in Newburyport, Massachusetts) was an American cartoonist and the creator of the cartoon Teena, which ran in newspapers from 1941 to 1964. She created giant portraits of ballplayers for stadium scoreboards in the early 1970s, and subsequently became involved in early computer animation.

She became the first woman to join the National Cartoonists Society in 1950, and received the Animation Award from the organization in 1979.

Terry maintained a non-profit foundation at the house she shared with her husband, Gregory d'Alessio, at 8 Henderson Place, New York, NY. D'Alessio was also a cartoonist and Terry's teacher in the 1930s. They married in 1938. D'Alessio was men's president of the Art Students' League of New York, and died in 1994.