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Jacky Fleming
Jacky Fleming was born in London in 1955, and attended the North London Collegiate School for Girls. She recalled it as a “strange” education, with emphasis on Latin and ancient Greek. A Foundation Year at Chelsea School of Art was followed by a Fine Art degree at Leeds University, where she discovered feminism, recalling later that “a lot of the things in my life started to make sense once I applied some sort of feminist understanding to it.”
Fleming’s earliest inspiration as a cartoonist were Ronald Searle’s anarchic drawings for the St. Trinians books. Her first published cartoons appeared in 1978, on the cover and centre pages of the feminist magazine Spare Rib, and these were followed by a series of cartoon postcards. Her postcards were very popular, and led to a series of cartoon books issued by Penguin, the first of which was “Be A Bloody Train Driver”, published in 1991.
- Jan Moir “Feminism down to a fine art”, The Guardian, 30 October 1991.
- Nicky Taylor “Modern life makes middle-aged cartoonist angry”,Yorkshire Post, 29 September 2004.
Holdings
A collection of Jacky Fleming's postcards.
