Book cover for The Flapper Queens: Women Cartoonists of the Jazz Age by Trina Robbins

The Flapper Queens

Women Cartoonists of the Jazz Age

2020 Released
168 Pages
2-3 Hours
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Fantagraphics BooksISBN 9781683963233

Nominee, 2024 Angoulême Heritage Prize

Nominee, 2024 First Print Awards

Nominee, SoBD Best Book Prize

From the foremost historian of women cartoonists, Trina Robbins, comes an eye-catching collection of comic strips from the Roaring Twenties depicting the high-stepping "Flapper" -- the symbol of women's newfound freedom -- all drawn by the best female cartoonists of the era! Including Nell Brinkley, Ethel Hays, Eleanor Schorer, Edith Stevens -- and possibly the flappiest of the Flapper Queens, Virginia Huget! This collection not only brings back into the spotlight several legendary women artists obscured by the sands of time but also celebrates an unabashedly feminist movement in our nation's history.

Trina Robbins

Writer and feminist herstorian Trina Robbins wrote books, comics, and graphic novels for over 40 years. Her work includes The Brinkley Girls (Fantagraphics), Forbidden City: the Golden Age of Chinese Nightclubs (Hampton Press), and the three-part YA series Chicagoland Detective Agency for Graphic Universe(TM).

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