Faith Swank Burrows (November 17, 1904 – April 11, 1997) was an American cartoonist during the Jazz Age. In the late 1920s and early 1930s, Burrows drew a daily comic panel called ''

Flapper Filosofy ''Flapper Filosofy'' (sometimes called ''Flapper Filosophy'') is a newspaper comic panel distributed by King Features Syndicate and the O'Dell Newspaper Service. It ran during the flapper era, from 1929 to 1935. The art was by Faith Burrows. E ...

'' (sometimes spelled ''Flapper Filosophy'') for King Features Syndicate. Each panel exhibited a

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attired in the current fashions with a humorous caption at the bottom. Burrows' panel ran in competition for a time with

Ethel Hays Ethel Hays (March 13, 1892 – March 19, 1989) was an American syndicated cartoonist specializing in flapper-themed comic strips in the 1920s and 1930s. She drew in Art Deco style. In the later part of her career, during the 1940s and 1950s, sh ...

' similarly themed '' Flapper Fanny Says'' panel from

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. In the early 1930s, she also drew a daily panel, ''Ritzy Rosalie'', for King Features. Writers in the United States such as

F. Scott Fitzgerald Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (September 24, 1896 – December 21, 1940) was an American novelist, essayist, and short story writer. He is best known for his novels depicting the flamboyance and excess of the Jazz Age—a term he popularize ...

and

Anita Loos Corinne Anita Loos (April 26, 1888 – August 18, 1981) was an American actress, novelist, playwright and screenwriter. In 1912, she became the first female staff screenwriter in Hollywood (film industry), Hollywood, when D. W. Griffith put h ...

, and illustrators such as

Russell Patterson Russell Patterson (December 26, 1893 – March 17, 1977) was an American cartoonist, illustrator and scenic designer. Patterson's art deco magazine illustrations helped develop and promote the idea of the 1920s and 1930s fashion style known as t ...

, John Held Jr., Ethel Hays and Faith Burrows popularized the flapper look and lifestyle through their works, and flappers came to be seen as attractive, reckless and independent. Burrows resided in

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at the time of her death.

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