Flenniken, Shary

Shary Flenniken (born 1950) joined the underground comics movement in the early 1970s. She began working in small-press comics in Seattle, and moved to San Francisco in 1971 to join the Air Pirates collective. Flenniken is widely recognized as an influential figure in the integration of feminist concerns into underground comics. She became a prominent contributor to National Lampoon, which she edited from 1979 to 1981. 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. She co-wrote the screenplay of National Lampoon Goes to the Movies.