Nationality American Role Comics Name Ruth Roche | Area(s) Writer, Editor Died 1983, Southampton | |
Pseudonym(s) R. A. Roche
Rod Roche
Ruth Manning
Ruth Ann Schaefer
A. Talbott Roche
Agnes Wilson
George Tracy
Miss Martin
Miss Thorpe
Tom Alexander | ||
Notable collaborations Jerry Iger | ||
Ruth Ann Roche (1921–1983), also credited as R. A. Roche and Rod Roche, was a writer and editor in the Golden Age of Comic Books. She was also the business partner of Jerry Iger.
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Life and career
Roche started as a writer at the Eisner-Iger studio, a packager for Fiction House, in 1940. She wrote such features as "Phantom Lady", "Senorita Rio", "Sheena, Queen of the Jungle", "Kaanga", and "Camilla". She also wrote the female-led adventure newspaper strip "Flamingo", drawn by Matt Baker and syndicated by Iger's Universal Phoenix Features Syndicate. She soon became Iger's associate editor; later they became business partners, and the studio became the Roche-Iger studio.
She stayed with the Roche-Iger studio until it ceased operations in 1961.
She later married a man named Schaffer (or possibly "Schaefer"). She died in 1983.
Legacy
Trina Robbins and Catherine Yronwode dedicated their 1985 book, Women in the Comics, to Roche.