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List Of Works By Nicole Hollander
The first collections of Nicole Hollander’s daily comic strip ''Sylvia'' were published in the late 1970s and early 1980s by St. Martin's Press. After 1985, except for two anthology volumes, St. Martin's Press was replaced by other publishers as listed below. Collections published in the 1990s and 2000s combine selections from the comic strip with cartoons and text created for the books. Sequential collections # ''I'm in Training to Be Tall and Blonde'', 1979, . # ''"Ma, Can I Be a Feminist and Still Like Men?": Lyrics from Life'', 1980, . # ''That Woman Must Be on Drugs: A Collection of Sylvia'', 1981, . # ''"Mercy, It's the Revolution and I'm in My Bathrobe": More Sylvia'', 1982, . # ''My Weight Is Always Perfect for My Height—Which Varies: More Sylvia'', 1982, . # ''Hi, This Is Sylvia: I Can't Come to the Phone Right Now, So When You Hear the Beep, Please Hang Up'', 1983, . # ''Sylvia on Sundays'', 1983, . # ''Okay, Thinner Thighs for Everyone'', 1984, . # ''Never Tell Y ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicole Hollander
Nicole Hollander (born April 25, 1939) is an American cartoonist and writer. Her daily comic strip '' Sylvia'' was syndicated to newspapers nationally by Tribune Media Services. Biography Born in Chicago, Illinois, Hollander was the daughter of Shirley Mazur Garrison and Henry Garrison, a labor activist and member of the carpenters union. Growing up in a working-class Chicago neighborhood, she was educated in Chicago public schools. She earned a B.F.A. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1960 and an M.F.A. from Boston University in 1966. Her marriage to Hungarian sociologist Paul Hollander ended in a 1962 divorce. During the 1970s, she was the graphic designer of a feminist publication, ''The Spokeswoman'', where she had the opportunity to transform the newsletter into a monthly magazine. While designing pages, she occasionally added her own political illustrations. "Around 1978," she created a comic strip, ''The Feminist Funnies'', later introducing the char ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daily Strip
A daily strip is a newspaper comic strip format, appearing on weekdays, Monday through Saturday, as contrasted with a Sunday strip, which typically only appears on Sundays. Bud Fisher's ''Mutt and Jeff'' is commonly regarded as the first daily comic strip, launched November 15, 1907 (under its initial title, ''A. Mutt'') on the sports pages of the ''San Francisco Chronicle''. The featured character had previously appeared in sports cartoons by Fisher but was unnamed. Fisher had approached his editor, John P. Young, about doing a regular strip as early as 1905 but was turned down. According to Fisher, Young told him, "It would take up too much room, and readers are used to reading down the page, and not horizontally." Other cartoonists followed the trend set by Fisher, as noted by comic strip historian R. C. Harvey: :The strip's regular appearance and its continued popularity inspired imitation, thus establishing the daily "strip" form for a certain kind of newspaper cartoon. Until ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tales From The Planet Sylvia
''Tales from the Planet Sylvia'' is a 1990 collection of comic strips by the American cartoonist Nicole Hollander from her syndicated comic strip '' Sylvia''. The strips are non-continuous with one another, as is usual for ''Sylvia'', and they feature the standard content of ''Sylvia'' comics, such as cats, gender politics, and the afterlife. The strips display a pungent sense of humor and a strong touch of feminism, as the title character interacts with her friends, her daughter, and her television set. Published in 1990 by St. Martin's Press, the book has an introduction by Barbara Ehrenreich Barbara Ehrenreich (, ; ; August 26, 1941 – September 1, 2022) was an American author and political activist. During the 1980s and early 1990s, she was a prominent figure in the Democratic Socialists of America. She was a widely read and awar .... See also List of works by Nicole Hollander External links Nicole Hollander blog Comics publications {{comic-strip-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barbara Ehrenreich
Barbara Ehrenreich (, ; ; August 26, 1941 – September 1, 2022) was an American author and political activist. During the 1980s and early 1990s, she was a prominent figure in the Democratic Socialists of America. She was a widely read and award-winning columnist and essayist and the author of 21 books. Ehrenreich was best known for her 2001 book '' Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America'', a memoir of her three-month experiment surviving on a series of minimum wage jobs. She was a recipient of a Lannan Literary Award. Early life Ehrenreich was born to Isabelle ( Oxley) and Ben Howes Alexander in Butte, Montana, which she describes as then being "a bustling, brawling, blue collar mining town". In an interview on C-SPAN, she characterized her parents as "strong union people" with two family rules: "never cross a picket line and never vote Republican". In a talk she gave in 1999, Ehrenreich called herself a "fourth-generation atheist". "As a little girl", she told '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jules Feiffer
Jules Ralph Feiffer (born January 26, 1929)''Comics Buyer's Guide'' #1650; February 2009; Page 107 is an American cartoonist and author, who was considered the most widely read satirist in the country. He won the Pulitzer Prize in 1986 as North-America's leading editorial cartoonist, and in 2004 he was inducted into the Comic Book Hall of Fame. He wrote the animated short ''Munro'', which won an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film in 1961. The Library of Congress has recognized his "remarkable legacy", from 1946 to the present, as a cartoonist, playwright, screenwriter, adult and children's book author, illustrator, and art instructor. When Feiffer was 17 (in the mid-1940s) he became assistant to cartoonist Will Eisner. There he helped Eisner write and illustrate his comic strips, including ''The Spirit''. In 1956 he became a staff cartoonist at ''The Village Voice'', where he produced the weekly comic strip titled ''Feiffer'' until 1997. His cartoons became nationally sy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
