The Flapper Queens

The Flapper Queens Women Cartoonists of the Jazz Age

First Fantagraphic Books edition

Hardback (20 Aug 2020)

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Publisher's Synopsis

Featuring the well-known cartoonists of the era like Ethel Hays, Nell Brinkley, and Virginia Huget, Eisner award-winning and women's comics expert Trina Robbins also introduces Eleanor Schorer, who in the '20s drew 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.

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: 9781683963233
Publisher: Fantagraphics
Imprint: Fantagraphics Books
Pub date:
Edition: First Fantagraphic Books edition
DEWEY: 741.5973082
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: ix, 157
Weight: 1194g
Height: 248mm
Width: 337mm
Spine width: 23mm