The Brinkley Girls

The Brinkley Girls The Best of Nell Brinkley's Cartoons from 1913-1940

Hardback (25 Jun 2009)

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Publisher's Synopsis

For more than 30 years, Nell Brinkley's beautiful girls pirouetted, waltzed, charlestoned, vamped and shimmied their way through the pages of William Randolph Hearst's newspapers, captivating the American public with their innocent sexuality. Beginning when she was just 22, Nell Brinkley quickly made her characters into household names and ready pop culture references; songs were written about her and women everywhere copied the fashions and hairstyles she drew each week. This collection is the first ever full-colour celebration of this feminist icon's work.

About the Publisher

Fantagraphics Books

Fantagraphics Books

Fantagraphics Books has been a leading proponent of comics as a legitimate form of art and literature since it began publishing the critical trade magazine The Comics Journal in 1976. By the early 1980s, Fantagraphics found itself at the forefront of the burgeoning movement to establish comics as a medium as eloquent and expressive as the more established popular arts of film, literature, poetry, et al. Fantagraphics quickly established a reputation as an advocacy publisher that specialized in seeking out and publishing the kind of innovative work that traditional comics corporations who dealt almost exclusively in super-heroes and fantasy either didn?t know existed or wouldn?t touch: serious, dramatic, historical, journalistic, political, and satirical work by a new generation of alternative cartoonists as well as many artists who gained prominence as part of the seminal underground comix movement of the '60s. Fantagraphics has since gained an international reputation for its literate and audacious editorial standards and its exacting production values.

Book information

ISBN: 9781560979708
Publisher: Fantagraphics
Imprint: Fantagraphics Books
Pub date:
DEWEY: 741.5092
DEWEY edition: 22
Language: English
Number of pages: 136
Weight: 1162g
Height: 339mm
Width: 252mm
Spine width: 17mm