![]() then the moment when it all coalesces into something hilarious. It was something about the timing – absorbing the drawing. In my teens I tore his full page ‘Genius’ strips out of the magazine they featured in, and kept a pile of them. John Glashan said, ‘Humour is seriousness in disguise’. Every woman in history who chose to dress as a man in order to study or work, like Margaret Bulkley, our first female surgeon, must have had one of those moments. It’s one of my favourite images in the book. Behind each of them is a huge bustle, like the backside of a pantomime horse. I chose to draw three women in a haberdashery shop, all choosing ribbons, but in the process of deciding whether life would be better as a man. ![]() I have had it up to HERE! From tomorrow I change my name, and dress as a man’? That’s the pleasure of drawing a book – transforming a thought into a visual image. How do you draw the moment when a woman thinks, ‘Enough. Here, Jacky Fleming gives us some insight into the ideas behind her latest, The Trouble with Women. We're celebrating women graphic novelists at the Bookshop in March. ![]()
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