Ella Cinders #1

Plot

A 1920s comic strip sensation, Ella Cinders is a jazz age Cinderella who struggles against her mean sisters and tyrannical mother. But with her poorer sibling Blackie, they go from poverty to wealth and back to poverty agains through a series of events and misadventures that define Ella’s life, as she strives to rise above her station and find true love, yet never attaining it.

The strip has previously been documented online by Barnacle Press, Steve Smith describing it as “a female comic strip character with genuine character,” on Panels & Prose, “no small thing in an era of flappers, housewives and career girl stereotypes.”

Some of the strips have also been previously republished by Golden Age Comics, curated by Kari A Therrian, including reprints of some of the Ella Cinders colour comics.