 Gertie" distinguishing her as one of the first female cartoonists to have her own published comic strip.In addition, she designed war posters and a building-sized mural entitled "A Bridge of Wings" at the Air Service Command in Patterson Field, Ohio.After the war, Mirabal taught and painted as an artist-in-residence at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale and in 1946 she was the only woman included in the First National Exhibition of Indian Painting at the Philbrook Museum of Art in Tulsa.