SHARY FLENNIKEN

Seattle cartoonist, editor, author and screenwriter Shary Flenniken got her start in comics as a member of Dan O'Neill's Air Pirates. She is best known for her irreverent comic strip Trots & Bonnie, which originally appeared in various underground comix publications but became famous for its 1972-1990 run in National Lampoon. The strip features naîve teenager Bonnie, her talking dog Trots and their precocious friend Pepsi in confused and frequently sexual explorations of adulthood. Shary was profiled in Comic
Book Confidential, the 1988 documentary film by Ron Mann. Her comics and illustrations have appeared in Details, Premiere, Harvey and Mad magazines, and books including When a Man Loves A Walnut by Gavin Edwards, and Nice Guys Sleep Alone by Bruce Feirstein. She has authored and edited Trots and Bonnie, Sexe & Armour and the comics anthology Seattle Laughs (1994, Homestead Book Co.).

Shary is currently teaching comedy writing and cartooning, while working on a book of fairy tales and a series of novels that she claims are “not even remotely autobiographical.”

Find out more at www.sharyflenniken.com.