num_pages: 168
description: Fantagraphics celebrates The Flapper Queens a gorgeous oversized hardcover 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.
language: English
title: The Flapper Queens: Women Cartoonists Of The Jazz Age
publisher: Fantagraphics