Shary Flenniken
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Shary Flenniken (born 1950)[3] is an American editor-writer-illustrator and underground cartoonist. After joining the burgeoning underground comics movement in the early 1970s, she became a prominent contributor to National Lampoon and was one of the editors of the magazine for two years.
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Born | 1950 (age 73–74) Norfolk, Virginia, US[1] |
Area(s) | Cartoonist, Writer, Penciller, Editor |
Notable works | Trots and Bonnie |
Awards | Inkpot Award (1980)[2] |
Spouse(s) | Bobby London (div.; m. c. 1972–1976) Bruce Jay Paskow (1987–1995; his death) |
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Flenniken is widely recognized as an influential figure in the integration of feminist concerns into underground comics. Her best-known creation is the comic strip Trots and Bonnie, a no-holds-barred satire of the adult world seen through the eyes of the naïve girl of the title and her talking dog (and their worldly-wise, precocious friend Pepsi); these three main characters are all sex-obsessed, and the two girls are in eighth grade, i.e. the final year of Junior High. Available in a 1989 French edition entitled Sexe & Amour [4] for many years, an American edition was not released until 2021; it provides much cultural context.[5] Despite the sometimes raunchy subject matter, it is illustrated in the vein of early comic strip artists like Clare Briggs and H. T. Webster.[6]