Shary Flenniken Video | Celebrity Interview and Paparazzi

Shary Flenniken (born 1950) 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. Her best-known creation is Trots and Bonnie, a light-hearted satire of the adult world through the eyes of a precocious girl and her talking dog. Shary Flenniken grew up in Alaska, Panama and Seattle, where she studied at a commercial art school. She began working on small-press comics in Seattle and moved... MORE

Shary Flenniken (born 1950) 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. Her best-known creation is Trots and Bonnie, a light-hearted satire of the adult world through the eyes of a precocious girl and her talking dog. Shary Flenniken grew up in Alaska, Panama and Seattle, where she studied at a commercial art school. She began working on small-press comics in Seattle and moved in 1971 to San Francisco, where she joined 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. She 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 LESS