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Flapper Fanny Says was a single-panel daily cartoon series starting on January 26, 1925, with a Sunday page (called Flapper Fanny) following on August 7, 1932. [1] Created by Ethel Hays, each episode featured a flapper illustration and a witticism. [2] The Sunday strip concluded on December 8, 1935; the daily panel continued until June 29, 1940 ...
Lois Bancroft Long (December 15, 1901 – July 29, 1974) was an American writer for The New Yorker during the 1920s. She was known under the pseudonym "Lipstick" and as the epitome of a flapper.
Flappers were a subculture of young Western women prominent after the First World War and through the 1920s who wore short skirts (knee height was considered short ...
Life published Ivy League jokes, cartoons, flapper sayings and all-burlesque issues. Beginning in 1920, Life undertook a crusade against Prohibition. It also tapped the humorous writings of Frank Sullivan, Robert Benchley, Dorothy Parker, Franklin Pierce Adams and Corey Ford.
Russell Patterson (December 26, 1893 – March 17, 1977) was an American cartoonist, illustrator and scenic designer.Patterson's art deco magazine illustrations helped develop and promote the idea of the 1920s and 1930s fashion style known as the flapper.
Fitzgerald’s early short fiction, as represented in Flappers and Philosophers (1920), frequently offers “authorial self-conscious” declarations. [5] Literary critic John Kuehl cites the following “pseudo-philosophical passage” from “The Offshore Pirate” as an example:
A caricature of a Jazz Age flapper, Betty Boop was described in a 1934 court case as "combin[ing] in appearance the childish with the sophisticated—a large round baby face with big eyes and a nose like a button, framed in a somewhat careful coiffure, with a very small body of which perhaps the leading characteristic is the most self-confident ...
A depiction of a flapper as illustrated by Ellen Pyle for the cover of the Saturday Evening Post (1922). The character of Daisy Buchanan has been identified by scholars as personifying the Jazz Age archetype of the flapper. [9] Flappers were young, modern women who bobbed their hair, wore short skirts, drank alcohol and had premarital sex.