Shary Flenniken
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| Born | 1950 (age 66–67) Norfolk, Virginia |
| Nationality | American |
| Area(s) | Cartoonist, Writer, Penciller, Editor |
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Notable works
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Trots and Bonnie |
| Spouse(s) |
Bobby London (div.; m. c. 1972–1976) Bruce Jay Paskow (1987–1995; his death) |
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Shary Flenniken (born 1950 in Norfolk, Virginia) is an 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 was one of the editors of the magazine for two years.
Flenniken is widely recognized as an influential figure in the integration of feminist concerns into underground comics. Her best-known creation is the comic strip Trots and Bonnie, a light-hearted satire of the adult world seen through the eyes of a precocious girl and her talking dog, illustrated in the vein of early comic strip artists like Clare Briggs and H. T. Webster.
Shary Flenniken grew up in Alaska, Panama, and Seattle, where she studied at a commercial art school.
In 1970, Flenniken was living in Seattle. In late summer that year she attended the Sky River Rock Festival, producing a daily Sky River newsletter on a mimeograph machine. She met Bobby London, Dan O'Neill, and Ted Richards at the media booth, and before the festival was over the four of them produced a four-page tabloid comic, Sky River Funnies, mostly drawn by London. After the festival, Flenniken returned to Seattle where she did graphics for the Seattle Liberation Front's brief-lived underground newspaper, Sabot.
She moved San Francisco in 1971, where she joined the Air Pirates collective. Flenniken was a marginal contributor to the Air Pirates, and the only member not to be sued for their Disney parodies.
Flenniken and London were recruited by Michel Choquette, an editor of National Lampoon, where Flennkin's Trots and Bonnie appeared from 1972 to 1990.
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