Suburban Underground

Alive within Shary Flenniken’s two decades of Trots and Bonnie comic strips are the experiences and politics of late twentieth-century sexuality. Flenniken’s cuttingly funny and empathetic narratives examine menstruation, intercourse, circumcision, porn, rape, genitalia, objectification, masturbation, and even skinny-dipping with the goal of understanding the bare facts that inform our behavior. Flenniken employs a vernacular linear 1920s cartoon style that cloaks the difficulty of h