Location
The Cartoon Museum, London
Norman Pett’s Jane has been called the most popular comic strip of the Second World War and “the world’s first super-model, page three girl and pin-up”.
Yet she was also much more than this. In continuous publication between 1932 and 1959, Jane was the most popular comic strip to appear in the British tabloid the Daily Mirror. Combining confidence, irreverence and bravery with high glamour and sex appeal, Jane was a ground-breaking character that reached an audience of millions and held a particular appeal for the largely female audience to which the Mirror was targeted.
Join Adam Twycross, author of British Newspaper Strips: A Contextual History, for an evening celebrating this legendary series. With a chance to learn more about Jane’s secret history, original art on display, and a plethora of rare and unusual items, the evening will culminate with the first public airing in 80 years of an excerpt from a previously unknown Jane radio show, created exclusively for the British armed forces in 1945 and never heard in public since!