Friday, February 03, 2023

Today in Comics History, February 3: Happy birthday, Gertrude Stein!

A happy birthday today to writer and lesbian icon Gertrude Stein, born on this day in 1874. She's the author of dozens of works including the bafflingly titled The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas. Happy birthday, Gert! Everybody loves Gertrude Stein, right, James Joyce?


from Shade, the Changing Man (1990 series) #31 (DC, January 1993), script by Peter Milligan, pencils by Colleen Doran, inks by Mark Buckingham, colors by Daniel Vozzo, letters by Todd Klein

Well, I like Gertrude Stein, because she always offers you some framboise. I'm not certain what framboise is, but I bet it's a delicious cream-filled dessert pastry.


Celebrate Gertrude Stein's birthday by cutting out these paper dolls of her and heterosexual life partner Alice B. Toklas!

"Gertrude and Alice" from Real Girl #5 (Fantagraphics, April 1993); script, art, pencils, inks, and letters by Trina Robbins
(Click picture to rose is a rose is a rose is a rose-size)

Happy birthday, Ms. Stein!

1 comment:

Smurfswacker said...

Here a well-known limerick is called for.

There's a wonderful family called Stein:
There's Gert and there's Ep and there's Ein.
Gert's poems are bunk,
Ep's statues are junk,
And no one can understand Ein.