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I had noticed how few women cartoonists were in the comics pages. I wondered why? And I wondered how the women who were published managed to get there? I decided to find out--from the cartoonists themselves. I found four smart and witty role models (Cathy Guisewite, Nicole Hollander, Lynda Barry and "Brenda Starr's" Dale Messick) who showed me new ways of looking at the comics, and the world." Pamela Beere Briggs, filmmaker Perfect program for use across the curriculum, as America's best-loved women cartoonists discuss and create comic strips about politics, gender stereotypes, self-esteem and aging.

FOUR STARS! A short and savvy film you wish would never end, it ought to be required viewing for artists, writers, women, men and everybody else.
Good Times

Delightful...explores the internal struggles as well as the social and political obstacles facing women cartoonists.
Ms. Magazine

Funny Ladies is a splendid documentary...the cartoonists tell about themselves and their work in wry and delightful fashion.
The Los Angeles Times

A handsome, well-crafted film...Funny Ladies helps to fill in the blanks in the history of this intriguing area of American popular culture.
The San Francisco Examiner

Linda C. Majka, University of Dayton
Teaching Sociology
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AWARDS & SCREENINGS:

• Gold Apple, National Educational Film & Video Festival
• Blue Ribbon, American Film & Video Festival
• Editor's Choice, Booklist

Resource Web Sites

Discussion & Study Guide

National Cartoonists Society

National Museum of Women in the Arts

National Women's History Project