Evelyn Betty Flinders (21 March 1910 – 31 October 1997) was a British comics artist who worked in girls' comics. She entered the

Hornsey School of Art Hornsey College of Art (a.k.a. Hornsey School of Art) was a college in Crouch End in the London Borough of Haringey, England. The HCA was "an iconic British art institution, renowned for its experimental and progressive approach to art and design ...

at the age of fifteen, and in 1928 got her first job with the

Amalgamated Press The Amalgamated Press (AP) was a British newspaper and magazine publishing company founded by journalist and entrepreneur Alfred Harmsworth (1865–1922) in 1901, gathering his many publishing ventures together under one banner. At one point the ...

, drawing for ''Schooldays''. By the time she was 21 she had drawn for virtually all of AP's girls' weekly publications. When ''

School Friend ''School Friend'' was the name of two different British weekly publications marketed toward girls, both of which were pioneering in their respective categories. The first ''School Friend'', published from 1919 to 1929, was the first story paper ...

'' relaunched in 1950, her strip ''

The Silent Three ''The Silent Three'' (originally ''The Silent Three of St. Kit's'') was a British comic strip published in the girls' comics magazine ''School Friend'' from 1950 to 1963, written by Horace Boyten and Stewart Pride, and originally illustrated by Ev ...

'', written by Horace Boyten and Stewart Pride, was the cover feature. Flinders retired in 1959. She died on 31 October 1997, at the age of 87.Probate Record: Flinders, Evelyn Betty
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