Shary Flenniken

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Shary Flenniken (born 1950[1]) is a U.S. 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.

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Shary Flenniken began working in small-press comics in Seattle, and moved to San Francisco in 1971 to join the Air Pirates collective. She was a marginal contributor to the Air Pirates (and the only member not to be sued for their Disney parodies), but was later widely recognized as an influential figure in the integration of feminist concerns into underground comics. Air Pirates co-founder Bobby London was married to Flenniken for several years.

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.

As of 2005, Flenniken lived in Seattle. She has been married twice, the latter time to the late Bruce Jay Paskow of the band Washington Squares.

  • (Biography on her official website, see below.)

  1. ^ "Flenniken, Shary, 1950-" in "Flemate" to "Flenniken" index, Comic Art Collection, Michigan State University


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