| Flapper Fanny | |
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Real Name |
Fanny |
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First Appearance |
Flapper Fanny Says (January 26, 1925) |
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Original Publisher |
Newspaper Enterprise Association |
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Created by |
Ethel Hays |
Origin[]
Flapper Fanny by Gladys Parker
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. Created by Ethel Hays, each episode featured a flapper illustration and a witticism. The Sunday strip concluded on December 8, 1935; the daily panel continued until June 29, 1940.
At the start, the panel was drawn by notable illustrator Hays, who employed an Art Deco style. Flapper Fanny Says was part of a wave of popular culture that focused on the flapper look and lifestyle. Through many films and the works of illustrators such as Hays, John Held Jr., and Russell Patterson, as well as the writings of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Anita Loos, flappers came to be seen as attractive, reckless and independent.
When Gladys Parker took over the strip in 1930, she gave it a "more cartoony style." Focus shifted from Fanny, now a curly-haired brunette resembling Parker herself, to her little sister Betty, a schoolgirl. Parker expanded the daily panel into a Sunday strip with the truncated title Flapper Fanny starting August 7, 1932, and continued both until December 8, 1935.
Parker relinquished Flapper Fanny Says to Sylvia Sneidman on December 9, 1935. That artist, who signed her work only "Sylvia," continued the strip until June 29, 1940.
Public Domain Appearances[]
All published appearances of Flapper Fanny from before January 1, 1931 are public domain in the US.
Some notable appearances are listed below:
Public Domain Comic Appearances[]
- Flapper Fanny Says (1926-1932)
- Flapper Fanny (1932-1940)
- Famous Funnies #19-25
- The Funnies #1-5, 7-8
- Crackajack Funnies #1-16
Notes[]
- The later comic strips are in the public domain because they were published in the United States between 1930 and 1963, and although there may or may not have been a copyright notice, the copyright was not renewed.