(W/A) Dale Messick. Hermes Press adds another important title to its classic comic book and comic strip reprints with Brenda Starr, Reporter: The Collected Daily and Sunday Strips. Created by Dale Messick, the first woman to create, draw, and write a syndicated newspaper strip, Brenda Starr successfully mixed romance, fashion, and adventure into one of the longest running features in newspaper history, and the reprint volumes begin with the strip's debut on June 30, 1940.