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Name three women cartoonists who worked from 1900 to 1950. Okay, just name one. Couldn't do it? Neither could I until reading a new, invaluable book, "The Great Women Cartoonists," ($24.95; Watson-Guptill Publications; 150 pp.; softcover), by Trina Robbins. Concentrating mostly on comicstrip and comicbook artists of the...
Though the title may lead you to expect an encyclopedic format, Robbins chooses instead to work chronologically, with each chapter equaling approximately one decade. As such, it becomes a kind of social anthropology of women's societal roles as reflected through the comics. Chapter one, covering the turn of the...
Nell Brinkley, who became a national sensation for her depiction of lushly-curled 1920's women, returns from relative obscurity thanks to Robbins. Brinkley became popular enough to warrant a licensing deal for hair products, and inspire a "Nell Brinkley" girl in the Ziegfeld Follies. Lushly illustrated, the book makes...
Hal (Jack Black), a cheerful boor in denial about the foxy women who deny him, meets a heavenly being (motivational flack Tony Robbins!) who lets Hal see the beauty of homely women--to him, the hippopotamic Rosemary looks like Gwyneth Paltrow. This fable, with its Shrek-like conceit, could be...
The plot twist, as it were, comes during a brief encounter between the title character and self-help guru Tony Robbins, who somehow causes Hal to see women as physical reflections of their inner beauty. Hal’s world has been turned inside out (as have the women who...