The Flapper Queens
Author | : Trina Robbins |
Publisher | : Fantagraphics Books |
Total Pages | : 170 |
Release | : 2020-08-18 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781683963233 |
ISBN-13 | : 1683963237 |
Rating | : 4/5 (33 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: 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.