![]() ![]() This is gorgeously produced and the illustrations are so beautiful. All of the artists included in this book are women, and it's refreshing to see that perspective from an age when women were still largely oppressed. I would not get this to read the comics, but to enjoy the highly stylized caricatures of flapper girls, the ode to fashion and frippery, and to appreciate a very interesting snapshot of the 1920s from the female perspective. I think you would be remiss to expect humor that's about a century old to translate well, and most of the comics really don't hold up to today's standards. ![]() It looks like something you would buy in a museum gift shop: fabric bound, with the interior covers tinted a gorgeous blue, and full-color illustrations that take up the whole page, in such good res that you can see the ink dots. Wow, can you say "keeper"? I love getting graphic-novels to review because they're normally quite pricey to buy, so it makes the books feel extra special- and FLAPPER QUEENS is perhaps the nicest collection of comic books that I have received to date. ![]()
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