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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] |
Comic Strip
A comic strip is a sequence of drawings, often cartoons, arranged in interrelated panels to display brief humor or form a narrative, often serialized, with text in balloons and captions. Traditionally, throughout the 20th and into the 21st century, these have been published in newspapers and magazines, with daily horizontal strips printed in black-and-white in newspapers, while Sunday papers offered longer sequences in special color comics sections. With the advent of the internet, online comic strips began to appear as webcomics. Strips are written and drawn by a comics artist, known as a cartoonist. As the word "comic" implies, strips are frequently humorous. Examples of these gag-a-day strips are '' Blondie'', ''Bringing Up Father'', ''Marmaduke'', and ''Pearls Before Swine''. In the late 1920s, comic strips expanded from their mirthful origins to feature adventure stories, as seen in ''Popeye'', ''Captain Easy'', ''Buck Rogers'', ''Tarzan'', and ''Terry and the Pira ... [...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] |
Sylvia (comic Strip)
''Sylvia'' was a comic strip by American cartoonist Nicole Hollander that offered commentary on political, social and cultural topics--and on cats--primarily in the voice of its title character, Sylvia. The strip was introduced on March 21, 1980. Distributed to newspapers nationally by Tribune Content Agency, Tribune Media Services, ''Sylvia'' appeared online at Hollander's blog, ''Bad Girl Chats'', but that domain now redirects to a commercial site. On March 26, 2012, Hollander announced "Sylvia's retirement from the newspaper business."Gardner, Alan"Nicole Hollander Retires Sylvia After 33 Years"''The Daily Cartoonist'' (March 28, 2012). Publication history ''Sylvia'' began as a continuation of Hollander's cartoons for a feminist magazine, ''The Spokeswoman'', collected in Hollander's 1979 book of cartoons, ''I’m in Training to Be Tall and Blonde.'' The book's success led Tribune Media Services to distribute ''Sylvia'' to newspapers as a daily strip, daily comic strip beginning ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Feminism
Feminism is a range of socio-political movements and ideologies that aim to define and establish the political, economic, personal, and social equality of the sexes. Feminism incorporates the position that society prioritizes the male point of view and that women are treated unjustly in these societies. Efforts to change this include fighting against gender stereotypes and improving educational, professional, and interpersonal opportunities and outcomes for women. Feminist movements have campaigned and continue to campaign for women's rights, including the right to vote, run for public office, work, earn equal pay, own property, receive education, enter contracts, have equal rights within marriage, and maternity leave. Feminists have also worked to ensure access to contraception, legal abortions, and social integration and to protect women and girls from rape, sexual harassment, and domestic violence. Changes in female dress standards and acceptable physical act ... [...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] |
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] |
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