Valleau, Janice (1923-2013)

 American artist and inker

Sometimes credited as Ginger or Janice S., was a Golden Age artist and inker who worked for MLJ (Archie) Publications, Charlton Comics, Novelty Press, and Quality Comics.

Her first published work appeared in Smash Comics, published when she was just 16. After high school, she attended the Phoenix Art Institute where she studied commercial art.

When she graduated, she went to work for MLJ (Archie) Publications, where she worked on comics like Archie, Ginger, and Gloomy Gus. She began working for Quality Comics soon after, and worked in comics for the next eleven years. She is best known for her work on the "Toni Gayle" feature for Young King Cole comic for Novelty (1946, 1947) featuring a glamorous model-detective.

She met her husband, Edward, in 1948. In the mid-1950s, they moved to Pittsburgh, where she continued to work on comics. She left comics in 1955 after the Wertham-era crackdown, which put her off working professionally in any art field.