- Shary Flenniken
Shary Flenniken (born 1950) [ [http://www.lib.msu.edu/comics/rri/frri/flem.htm "Flemate" to "Flenniken" index, Comic Art Collection, Michigan State University] ] is a 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 edited the magazine for two years. Her best-known creation is "Trots and Bonnie", a light-hearted satire of the adult world through the eyes of a sexually precocious girl and her talking dog.Air Pirates
Shary Flenniken grew up in Alaska, Panama and
Seattle , where she studied at a commercial art school. She began working on small-press comics in Seattle and moved in 1971 toSan Francisco , where she joined theAir Pirates collective. She was a marginal contributor to the Air Pirates (and the only member "not" to be sued for their Disney parodies). She was later widely recognized as an influential figure in the integration of feminist concerns into underground comics. Air Pirates co-founderBobby London was married to Flenniken for several years."National Lampoon"
Flenniken and London were recruited by "National Lampoon" for regular comics features; "Trots and Bonnie" appeared there from 1972 to 1990. Flenniken was an editor of "National Lampoon" from 1979 to 1981, recruited many of the magazine's best-known cartoonists during that time, and co-wrote the screenplay of "National Lampoon Goes to the Movies".
Her second marriage was with the late Bruce Jay Paskow of the band
Washington Squares . After the couple wed in 1987, they moved two years later from Manhattan to Seattle, where they were together for six years until Paskow's death in 1995.Flenniken edited "Seattle Laughs: Comic Stories about Seattle" (Homestead, 1994), and she continues to freelance from Seattle. In addition to contributions to
DC Comics ' Paradox Press anthologies, her work has appeared in "Mad", "Premiere", "Details", "The American Lawyer " and other magazines. In recent years she contributed to the "Graphic Classics" series, praised by "School Library Journal" and "Publishers Weekly " for its adaptations ofMark Twain ,O. Henry and other authors.References
External links
* [http://www.sharyflenniken.com/ Shary Flenniken official site]
* [http://www.marksverylarge.com/people/flenniken.html Shary Flenniken profile with "Trots and Bonnie" strips]
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