witty Flapper Fanny and her one liner wisdom.
NOTE: All of the Flapper Fanny uploads on my account can be hung next to each other seamlessly. This paper is designed to look like it never repeats. For more information on how to do this, check out my tutorial on tiktok. Flapper Fanny Says was a single-panel daily cartoon series in the 1920s conceptualized and drawn by artist Ethel Hays and owned by the Newspaper Enterprise Association. Each "episode" featured a flapper illustration and a witticism, and nearly every panel features a different outfit. Flapper Fanny Says was part of a wave of popular culture that focused on the flapper look and lifestyle. Through many films and the works of illustrators such as Hays, John Held Jr., and Russell Patterson, as well as the writings of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Anita Loos, flappers came to be seen as attractive, reckless and independent. Although these cartoons were drawn nearly 100 years ago Fanny's saucy attitude (and unstoppable shopping habit) has been deeply relatable to me. I spent months compiling this collection of old newspaper scans, meticulously restored each one, and complied them into this vertical brick pattern mosaic to be featured prominently in my 1920s themed dressing room.