A 1920s comic strip sensation, Ella Cinders is the jazz age Cinderella who struggles against her mean sisters and tyrannical mother. But with her poorer sibling Blackie, they go from poverty to wealth and back to poverty agains through a series of events and misadventures that define Ella’s life, as she strives to rise above her station and find true love, yet never attaining it. It was such a popular feature in the newspapers that within a year a movie was made, the first live action feature film based on a comic strip. Follow her trials and triumphs in this long forgotten strip that was once one the premier strips of its time.
$25.00 | 224pp | Paperback | B&W | 11″ x 8.5″ | No ISBN
A 1920s comic strip sensation, Ella Cinders is the jazz age Cinderella who struggles against her mean sisters and tyrannical mother. But with her poorer sibling Blackie, they go from poverty to wealth and back to poverty agains through a series of events and misadventures that define Ella’s life, as she strives to rise above her station and find true love, yet never attaining it. It was such a popular feature in the newspapers that within a year a movie was made, the first live action feature film based on a comic strip. Follow her trials and triumphs in this long forgotten strip that was once one the premier strips of its time.
$25.00 | 224pp | Paperback | B&W | 11″ x 8.5″ | No ISBN
Ella Cinders was a popular newspaper strip from the start, so it was only a matter of time before Sunday strips appeared. Writer Bill Counselman manages to have the Sundays strips run in parallel to the dailies, but are self contained. Artist Charles Plumb, given the freedom of a larger format of the Sundays, provides inventive and gorgeous artwork that made Ella Cinders a standout in the late 1920s. Follow the adventures of Ella and her brother Blackie as she searches for work and love.
$50.00 | 234pp | Hardcover | B&W | 8.5″ x 11″ | No ISBN
