Background
Shary Flenniken grew up in Alaska, Panama and Seattle, where she studied at a commercial art school.
Shary Flenniken grew up in Alaska, Panama and Seattle, where she studied at a commercial art school.
After joining the burgeoning underground comics movement in the early 1970s, she became a prominent contributor to and was one of the editors of the magazine for two years. Her best-known creation is, a light-hearted satire of the adult world through the eyes of a precocious girl and her talking dog. She began working on small-press comics in Seattle and moved in 1971 to San Francisco, where she joined the collective.
She was a marginal contributor to the, and the only member not to be sued for their Disney parodies.
She was later widely recognized as an influential figure in the integration of feminist concerns into underground comics. Flenniken and London were recruited by Michel Choquette, an editor of Regular comics features.
Appeared there from 1972 to 1990. Flenniken was an editor of from 1979 to 1981, recruited many of the magazine"s best-known cartoonists during that time, and co-wrote the screenplay of Goes to the Movies.
Her second marriage was with the late Bruce Jay Paskow of the band Washington Squares.
After the couple wed in 1987, they moved two years later from Manhattan to Seattle, where they were together for six years until Paskow"s death in 1995. Flenniken edited: Comic Stories about Seattle (Homestead, 1994), and she continues to freelance from Seattle. In addition to contributions to District of Columbia Comics" Paradox Press anthologies, her work has appeared in Mad, Premiere, Details, The American Lawyer and other magazines.
In recent years she contributed to the Graphic Classics series, praised by School Library Journal and Publishers Weekly for its adaptations of Mark Twain, O. Henry and other authors.