After Gentlemen Prefer Blondes became a best-selling novel but before any of the play adaptations reached Broadway or any of the film versions hit the big screen, Anita Loos brought her vapid, cunning, obsessed Lorelei Lee (and her friend Dorothy and their gentleman sponsors) to the daily paper, creating a comic strip that both adapted from and expanded on the novel. Now this long-overlooked treasure of the Jazz Age has been brought back to print, collected for the first time in this complete and full-sized edition. Over 100 strips, filled with humor and the fresh fashion of its time. Art is provided by Virginia Huget, who want on to do a series of flapper cartoon features for the front pages of newspapers’ color sections; and Phil Cook, whose brief career as a comics artist and Collier’s cover artist got set aside when he got his own syndicated radio comedy show.
Content note: This historic volume contains racial caricatures of a style that were common at the time but would be considered inappropriate today.
This 64 page paperback comes in two editions, both with the same content, but differing in size and print quality. An affordable edition, 8.5″x6″, is available through Amazon, while a more upscale edition, 11″x8.5″, is available though Lulu.com.
