Mopsy: The Maid Who Makes You Laugh

By Gladys Parker

Meet Mopsy – that funny, sexy, slightly dingy (yet impishly clever) maid of mirth! Conceived by brilliant cartoonist Gladys Parker, Mopsy was a joke-a-day panel that captivated readers for three decades. This “best of” collection, originally published in 1945 and today selling for hundreds of dollars, comprises cartoons that originally appeared in newspapers during the war years (1942 to 1945), when Parker was at her creative peak.

“Jim Davidson’s JD Press gives us the welcome opportunity to revisit Parker with his restored and reissued Mopsy: The Maid Who Makes You Laugh…The book is very cleanly, sharply rendered with the kind of inky blacks and high resolution on crisp white paper that make Mopsy’s precision line work shine.”
-Steve Smith, Panels & Prose

Publication Date: Feb 27, 2026
Language: English
ISBN: 9781105607691
Category: Comics & Graphic Novels
Contributors: By (author) Gladys Parker
Pages: 102
Binding Type: Paperback Perfect Bound
Interior Color: Black & White
Dimensions: Digest (5.5 x 8.5 in / 140 x 216 mm)

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JD Press is the place to find books that inform and delight you! Our mission is to bring you comics and literature that are both educational and entertaining that you’re not likely to find anywhere else. Jim Davidson, head honcho of JD Press, is the founder and past president of the National Association for the Advancement of Perry Mason and former publisher/editor of the periodicals NAAPM Newsletter and Classic TV. His articles, interviews, and reviews have appeared in Films in Review, Filmfax, Tower Records' Pulse! magazine, and The TV Collector. He has contributed research to the books The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network TV Shows (Fifth Edition) by Tim Brooks and Earle Marsh (Ballantine Books), Primetime Proverbs by Jack Mingo and John Javna (Harmony Books), Donna Reed: A Bio-Bibliography by Brenda Scott Royce (Greenwood Press), and was a member of the expert panel that ranked shows for The Best of Crime & Detective TV by Max Allan Collins and John Javna (Harmony Books). He has appeared on TV in The Case of the Courtroom Legends, a Showtime special about Perry Mason author Erle Stanley Gardner and star Raymond Burr, and was co-producer of the Perry Mason 50th Anniversary Edition DVD set from CBS-Paramount. He maintains the websites Classic TV Info and JD's Comics History Hub. Jim attended the New England Conservatory of Music and is a professional jazz musician and retired employee of The Clorox Company.

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