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Glamour Girls by Don Flowers Good Girl Artwork from 6/7/1953 Size: 11 x 15 inch
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Condition:Paper: Some light tanning, otherwise: Excellent! Bright Colors! Pulled from Loose Sections! (Please Check Scans) This is a GLAMOUR GIRLS_ _SUNDAY PAGE BY DON FLOWERS. This was a syndicated feature that ran for many years in the Sunday Comics Se ... Read More
Condition:Paper: Some light tanning, otherwise: Excellent! Bright Colors! Pulled from Loose Sections! (Please Check Scans)
This is a GLAMOUR GIRLS_ _SUNDAY PAGE BY DON FLOWERS. This was a syndicated feature that ran for many years in the Sunday Comics Section of many newspapers. GREAT ARTWORK! Wonderful Images for Presentation and Display! These Frame Very Nicely! This was cut from the original newspaper Sunday comics section of 1953. SIZE: 11 X 15 INCHES (HALF FULL SIZE PAGE!). PAPER: SOME LIGHT TANNING, OTHERWISE: EXCELLENT! BRIGHT COLORS! PULLED FROM LOOSE SECTIONS! (PLEASE CHECK SCANS) Please include $5.00 Total postage on any size order (USA) $20.00 International FLAT RATE. I combine postage on multiple pages. Check out my other auctions for more great vintage Comic Strips and Paper Dolls. THANKS FOR LOOKING!
*buy as many as you would like and pay only $5.00 total combined postage in usa! $20.00 overseas
Don Flowers
Born 1908
Custer City, Oklahoma, U.S.
Died 1968 (aged 59–60)
Nationality American
Area(s) Cartoonist
Notable works Modest Maidens / Glamor Girls
Don Flowers' Glamor Girls
Don Flowers (1908–1968) was an American cartoonist best known for his syndicated panel Glamor Girls. Flowers was noted for his fluid ink work, prompting Coulton Waugh to write that Flowers displayed "about the finest line ever bequeathed to a cartoonist. It dances; it snaps gracefully back and forth; the touches related."
Biography
Early Life and Education
One of three children, Flowers was born in 1908 in Custer City, Oklahoma, to Mabel Flowers and photographer W.A. Flowers. He dropped out of school at age 16 and spent five years working at The Kansas City Star as a staff artist and photo retoucher.
Pigs and Pin-Ups
After a brief job with the Chicago American, Flowers moved to New York where he was a staff artist at the Associated Press. He created his first syndicated feature, Puffy the Pig, for AP Newsfeatures in 1930. The following year, he began drawing Oh, Diana! and introduced a pinup-style with Modest Maidens, both for AP Newsfeatures. Modest Maidens brought him a weekly salary of $25, which tripled the following year. During World War II, the gals of Modest Maidens learned first aid, dug in victory gardens, entertained GIs and served as wardens and lookouts.
From Ap to King Features
Modest Maidens became so successful that William Randolph Hearst of King Features Syndicate wanted the feature and offered Flowers double what he earned at AP. However, AP held the rights, so Flowers simply renamed his panel Glamor Girls and signed on with King Features.
Oh, Diana! was continued by Bill Champs and Phil Berube after Flowers left AP for King Features in 1945. Virginia Clark was drawing Oh, Diana! in 1947. Modest Maidens, was taken over by AP staff artist Jay Alan.
At its peak, Glamor Girls ran in 300 newspapers. Flowers continued to draw the Glamor Girls daily and Sunday panels until his 1968 death from emphysema.
Books
During the late 1940s, some 200 Flowers cartoons were published in an Avon paperback. The initial print run of 200,000 copies immediately sold out, followed by a second printing of 215,000 copies. Alex Chun collected Flowers' work for The Glamor Girls of Don Flowers, published by Fantagraphics Books in 2005 with a foreword by Sergio Aragones and an afterword by Don Flowers, Jr.
*please note: collecting and selling comics has been my hobby for over 30 years. Due to the hours of my job i can usually only mail packages out on saturdays. I send out priority mail which takes 2 - 7 days to arrive in the usa and air mail international which takes 5 - 30 days depending on where you live in the world. I do not "sell" postage or packaging and charge less than the actual cost of mailing. I package items securely and wrap well. Most pages come in an archival sleeve with acid free backing board at no extra charge. If you are dissatisfied with an item. Let me know and i will do my best to make it right.
Many thanks to all of my 1,000's of past customers around the world.
enjoy your hobby everyone and have fun collecting!
This is a GLAMOUR GIRLS_ _SUNDAY PAGE BY DON FLOWERS. This was a syndicated feature that ran for many years in the Sunday Comics Section of many newspapers. GREAT ARTWORK! Wonderful Images for Presentation and Display! These Frame Very Nicely! This was cut from the original newspaper Sunday comics section of 1953. SIZE: 11 X 15 INCHES (HALF FULL SIZE PAGE!). PAPER: SOME LIGHT TANNING, OTHERWISE: EXCELLENT! BRIGHT COLORS! PULLED FROM LOOSE SECTIONS! (PLEASE CHECK SCANS) Please include $5.00 Total postage on any size order (USA) $20.00 International FLAT RATE. I combine postage on multiple pages. Check out my other auctions for more great vintage Comic Strips and Paper Dolls. THANKS FOR LOOKING!
*buy as many as you would like and pay only $5.00 total combined postage in usa! $20.00 overseas
Don Flowers
Born 1908
Custer City, Oklahoma, U.S.
Died 1968 (aged 59–60)
Nationality American
Area(s) Cartoonist
Notable works Modest Maidens / Glamor Girls
Don Flowers' Glamor Girls
Don Flowers (1908–1968) was an American cartoonist best known for his syndicated panel Glamor Girls. Flowers was noted for his fluid ink work, prompting Coulton Waugh to write that Flowers displayed "about the finest line ever bequeathed to a cartoonist. It dances; it snaps gracefully back and forth; the touches related."
Biography
Early Life and Education
One of three children, Flowers was born in 1908 in Custer City, Oklahoma, to Mabel Flowers and photographer W.A. Flowers. He dropped out of school at age 16 and spent five years working at The Kansas City Star as a staff artist and photo retoucher.
Pigs and Pin-Ups
After a brief job with the Chicago American, Flowers moved to New York where he was a staff artist at the Associated Press. He created his first syndicated feature, Puffy the Pig, for AP Newsfeatures in 1930. The following year, he began drawing Oh, Diana! and introduced a pinup-style with Modest Maidens, both for AP Newsfeatures. Modest Maidens brought him a weekly salary of $25, which tripled the following year. During World War II, the gals of Modest Maidens learned first aid, dug in victory gardens, entertained GIs and served as wardens and lookouts.
From Ap to King Features
Modest Maidens became so successful that William Randolph Hearst of King Features Syndicate wanted the feature and offered Flowers double what he earned at AP. However, AP held the rights, so Flowers simply renamed his panel Glamor Girls and signed on with King Features.
Oh, Diana! was continued by Bill Champs and Phil Berube after Flowers left AP for King Features in 1945. Virginia Clark was drawing Oh, Diana! in 1947. Modest Maidens, was taken over by AP staff artist Jay Alan.
At its peak, Glamor Girls ran in 300 newspapers. Flowers continued to draw the Glamor Girls daily and Sunday panels until his 1968 death from emphysema.
Books
During the late 1940s, some 200 Flowers cartoons were published in an Avon paperback. The initial print run of 200,000 copies immediately sold out, followed by a second printing of 215,000 copies. Alex Chun collected Flowers' work for The Glamor Girls of Don Flowers, published by Fantagraphics Books in 2005 with a foreword by Sergio Aragones and an afterword by Don Flowers, Jr.
*please note: collecting and selling comics has been my hobby for over 30 years. Due to the hours of my job i can usually only mail packages out on saturdays. I send out priority mail which takes 2 - 7 days to arrive in the usa and air mail international which takes 5 - 30 days depending on where you live in the world. I do not "sell" postage or packaging and charge less than the actual cost of mailing. I package items securely and wrap well. Most pages come in an archival sleeve with acid free backing board at no extra charge. If you are dissatisfied with an item. Let me know and i will do my best to make it right.
Many thanks to all of my 1,000's of past customers around the world.
enjoy your hobby everyone and have fun collecting!
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