The Flapper Queens. Women Cartoonists of the Jazz Age

Plot

Comics historian Trina Robbins pays homage to six women artists of the '20s and '30s (Nell Brinkley, Eleanor Schorer, Edith Stevens, Ethel Hays, Fay King and Virginia Huget) in a lively, vividly illustrated celebration. A fresh, spirited look at a colorful cultural phenomenon.

Retired underground cartoonist and current comics historian Trina Robbins has been writing graphic novels, comics, and books for almost half a century. Her subjects have ranged from Wonder Woman and The Powerpuff Girls to her own teenage superheroine, GoGirl!, and from women cartoonists and superheroines to women who kill. She's won an Inkpot Award and was inducted in the Will Eisner Hall of Fame at the San Diego Comic-Con.