Iconic cartoonist Jacky Fleming returns with her first book in over 10 years
Jacky Fleming is a feminist cartoonist whose work first became known through her series of pre-internet postcards which reached women around the world by snail mail. Following a foundation year at the Chelsea School of Art, she went on to study Fine Art at Leeds University, where her contemporaries formed bands like the Mekons, and the Gang of Four. Her first published work, which appeared in Spare Rib, was a university essay for feminist art historian Griselda Pollock which Fleming handed in as a cartoon strip. Since then her work has featured in many publications including the Guardian, the Independent, New Statesman, New Internationalist, Red Pepper, Observer, Diva, You magazine and the Big Issue. She has published six books of cartoons, The Trouble with Women is her seventh.
Jacky Fleming…is brilliantly, mordantly funny and extremely clever,
and these are her finest drawings yet… The book is savagely funny
and wonderfully constructed, so that you start off giggling
uncontrollably but then grow quieter at each successive
misogynistic shocker… There isn’t a man, woman or child who
wouldn’t benefit from spending time with this.
*The Sunday Times*
Fleming ably skewers the Great Men of History, not to diminish
their own works but to highlight those women who were trodden
underfoot… A perfect gift for all genders, ages and political
persuasions but is sadly confined to the humour section rather than
the place it really belongs – the school curriculum.
*Independent on Sunday*
Fleming ably skewers the Great Men of History, not to diminish
their own works but to highlight those women who were trodden
underfoot… A perfect gift for all genders, ages and political
persuasions but is sadly confined to the humour section rather than
the place it really belongs – the school curriculum.
*Independent on Sunday*
This book is an utter delight – it does something I always admire,
making very serious points but doing so through the medium of
humour and satire. And oh my god, it does it so very well, text and
cartoons working perfectly together here – I had to pause my
reading frequently because I was laughing too much to continue to
the next page.
*Fordbidden Planet*
A collection of withering, laugh-out-loud commentaries and
illustrations regarding women’s lot… The perfect gift for a
burgeoning feminist daughter.
*The Big Issue*
Fleming has taken historic theories about women’s limited abilities
and created a wry look at how sexism has affected what history has
recorded.
*Stylist*
Jacky Fleming is at her funniest yet… Beautiful, funny and
important piece of feminist art.
*Diva*
Crackling with her sparky humour and wry sense of the
ridiculous.
*The Pool*
I laughed so hard, I sank to the floor
*The Week*
There’s plenty more to pique your interest here, such as Jacky
Fleming’s ferociously funny The Trouble With Women.
*Paul Gravett*
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