The July 2023 issue of DOLLS is 64 full-color pages. This issue is our special annual Debut of Dolls collector’s edition! Inside, you’ll find articles on more than 30 dollmakers, including Elizabeth Cooper, Dianna Effner Dolls, Lauren Faith Jaimes, Madame Alexander (celebrating their centennial), Maria Lynn Dolls, Meadowdolls, Kaye Wiggs, and more! Plus, we have previews of several summer doll shows and our column on vintage dolls.
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The May/June 2023 issue of DOLLS is 48 full-color pages and features a look back at Mel Odom’s creation of fashion-doll icon Gene Marshall, fashion BJD artist Alena Amicus, BJD artist Joyce Mathews, and more!
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The April 2023 issue of DOLLS is 48 full-color pages and features a look at new doll designs premiering this year, including a feature on multi-award-winning artist Hildegard Günzel, as well as an article on Cosmopolitan’s 1950s Ginger, “The Darling of the Doll World,” and more!
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Many people in the 1960s (including doll collectors) thought that Ideal’s Tammy doll was a wholesome representation of a teenage girl — more so than the apparently sophisticated Barbie doll by Mattel. These people would be somewhat correct, however there is a lot more to the story.
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I have quite a few antique dolls from the ABG factory. They are china and bisque shoulder heads, many with molded hair, all beautifully made, probably all made before 1900. You say in your books that ABG produced character heads in the 1920s. Could you be more specific about these later dolls?
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Once upon a time — in 1955, to be exact — Madame Alexander issued a 21-inch debutante doll with a full figure, arched high-heel feet, and a wardrobe the likes of which had never been seen before. Her name was Cissy, and she would forever change the way children and the doll industry looked at dolls. Previously most dolls were made in the likeness of a child, such as Betsy McCall, Ginny, and many others.
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