Sylvia (comic strip)

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Sylvia

Author(s)	Nicole Hollander
Website	http://www.gocomics.com/sylvia/
Current status/schedule	Daily
Launch date	March 21, 1980
End date	March 2012
Syndicate(s)	Tribune Media Services
Genre(s)	Humor, feminism, satire
Preceded by	Feminist Funnies

Sylvia was a comic strip by American cartoonist Nicole Hollander that offered commentary on political, social and cultural topics—and on cats—primarily in the voice of its title character, Sylvia. The strip was introduced on March 21, 1980.^[1] Distributed to newspapers nationally by Tribune Media Services, Sylvia appeared online at Hollander's blog, Bad Girl Chats, but that domain now redirects to a commercial site. On March 26, 2012, Hollander announced "Sylvia's retirement from the newspaper business."^[2]^[3]

Publication history

Sylvia began as a continuation of Hollander's cartoons for a feminist magazine, The Spokeswoman, collected in Hollander's 1979 book of cartoons, I’m in Training to Be Tall and Blonde. The book's success led Tribune Media Services to distribute Sylvia to newspapers as a daily comic strip beginning in 1980.^[2]^[4]^[5]^[1]

Hollander has published 19 Sylvia collections, including The Whole Enchilada (1982), Tales from the Planet Sylvia (1990), with an introduction by Barbara Ehrenreich, and The Sylvia Chronicles: 30 Years of Graphic Misbehavior from Reagan to Obama (2010), with an introduction by Jules Feiffer.

References

^ ^a ^b Holtz, Allan (2012). American Newspaper Comics: An Encyclopedic Reference Guide. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press. p. 373. ISBN 9780472117567.
^ ^a ^b Gardner, Alan. "Nicole Hollander Retires Sylvia After 33 Years" The Daily Cartoonist (March 28, 2012).
^ Miner, Michael (April 6, 2018). "Life After Sylvia: Cartoonist Nicole Hollander Publishes a Memoir". Chicago Reader. Retrieved April 6, 2018.
^ Power, Amy. "'Sylvia' makes an exclusive stop at OSU," The Lantern, August 3, 1998.
^ Cantarow, Ellen. "Don't Throw That Old Diaphragm Away!" Mother Jones, June-July 1987:22-26.

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