The Flapper Queens: Women Cartoonists of the Jazz Age

Genres: Historical, Leading Ladies
Publisher: Fantagraphics Books

Vol 1: August 18 2020
Fantagraphics celebrates The Flapper Queens, a gorgeous collection of full-color comic strips. In addition to featuring the more well-known cartoonists of the era, such as Ethel Hays, Nell Brinkley, and Virginia Huget, Eisner award-winning Trina Robbins introduces you to Eleanor Schorer, who started her career in the teens as a flowery art nouveau Nell Brinkley imitator but, by the ’20s, was drawing bold and outrageous art deco illustrations; Edith Stevens, who chronicled the fashion trends, hairstyles, and social manners of the ’20s and ’30s in the pages of The Boston Globe; and Virginia Huget, possibly the flappiest of the Flapper Queens, whose girls, with their angular elbows and knees, seemed to always exist in a euphoric state of Charleston.

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The Flapper Queens: Women Cartoonists of the Jazz Age TPB (Part 2)
The Flapper Queens: Women Cartoonists of the Jazz Age TPB (Part 1)