Flapper Fanny on the Fifth!

 It's Cinco de Mayo, and Flapper Fanny is here!

It's Fanny Friday

You can review these posts here at Shades of Gray to see if our dancers are covered or not.

Flapper Fanny on National Secretary's Day

Fanny Friday

The more things change, the more they stay the same...

It's a Fanny Friday!

It's a Fanny Fool's Day!

 

Fanny Friday

In 1927--the year this week's Flapper Fanny cartoon was originally published--the U.S. was fully engulfed by the Black Bottom dance craze. For more information, and to see demonstrations, check out this previous Shades of Gray post.

It's Women's History Month...

... and Flapper Fanny makes a special appearance (via the pens of trailblazing female cartoonists Ethel Hays and Gladys Parker) with commentary on changing fashion.

In 1928...

In 1938... 

Then, Now, and In the Future...

Fanny Friday

It's Women's History Month...

... so here's one more cartoon about 1920s fashions from illustrator and writer Ethel Hays.

It's a Very Fanny St. Patrick's Day!

It's Women's History Month...

... so here's another cartoon from the 1920s about women's fashion trends, by author/illustrator Ethel Hays. (Her self-titled cartoon series was syndicated to over 500 newspapers.)

It's Women's History Month...

 ... so here's a 100+ year-old cartoon about women's fashion trends, by cartoonist and children's books author/illustrator Ethel Hays. 

Among Hays' creations were "Flapper Fanny Says" and her self-titled "Ethel" series, which were syndicated to over 500 newspapers during the 1920s and early 1930s. ("Flapper Fanny" appeared daily while "Ethel" was two or more times a week.)

Hays stepped away from newspaper cartooning to focus more on her children and family, but she continued to illustrate children's books.

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.