Hokinson

Like Charles Addams, Helen E. Hokinson, George Price, Saul Steinberg and James Thurber, “Booth invented a defined cast of characters and an environment for them to exist — a place entirely Boothian,” Maslin wrote in an email.

Among those killed were Helen E. Hokinson, a New Yorker cartoonist, and Maine congressman George J. Bates, a supporter of home rule for the District.

Four years before “Ulysses” was available in the United States, The New Yorker ran a cartoon by Helen Hokinson that depicted a society matron furtively trying to obtain a copy of the famously smutty novel in Paris: “Avez-vous ‘Ulysses’?”

Perhaps the most famous of the women cartoonists in those early years was Helen Hokinson, whose every stroke of the pen inexplicably seemed to carry humor.

Jana Hokinson of Manson, Iowa, was one Vikings fan who traveled to Philadelphia for the game.