Fanny Friday

 

"Flapper Fanny Says" (later just "Flapper Fanny") ran as a single-panel daily cartoon from January 26, 1925 until June 29, 1940. The series was part of a wave of popular culture that focused on the flapper look and lifestyle, and it was created and initially drawn by Ethel Hays (1925-1930), then Gladys Parker (1930-1935), and finally Sylvia Sneldman (1935-1940).

Flapper Fanny will be appearing here at Shades of Gray, on every other Friday for the foreseeable future. We're kicking things off with the very first "Flapper Fanny Says" cartoon, although future weeks will bring a random selection of Hays' run on the strip (which was very Art Deco in style and consistently featured a flapper cartoon and a witticism), Parker (whose work on the series was more what in line with what is traditionally thought of as a comics strip format), and Sneldman (who combined elements of both her predecessors and increasingly drew upon an expanded cast of characters that had been introduced by Parker).

You can read a little more about the publishing history of Flapper Fanny here.