# Trotts And Bonnie Collection. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 24, 2005, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trotts-and-bonnie-collection/318431 "2005-08-24T15:24:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2005, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trotts-and-bonnie-collection/318431/1 "2005-08-24T15:24:07Z")
There was a compic strip in the National Lampoon named _Trotts & Bonnie_. Was there ever a collection? ---
**Author:** ![Nonsuch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nonsuch/32/2922_2.png) [@Nonsuch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nonsuch)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2005, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trotts-and-bonnie-collection/318431/2 "2005-08-24T15:31:40Z")
Shary Flenniken’s [site](http://www.fedge.net/sharyflenniken/home.html) says there was, but offers no details. ---
**Author:** ![Scott\_Plaid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Scott\_Plaid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scott_Plaid)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2005, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trotts-and-bonnie-collection/318431/3 "2005-08-24T15:41:42Z")
I loved that. I remember the one about skinny dipping, and something about people being uptight, but I can not remember the details. _sigh_ Here are the Pn#s, taken from here:[http://www.lib.msu.edu/comics/rri/trri/tron.htm](http://www.lib.msu.edu/comics/rri/trri/tron.htm) > [@](#): > > Trots and Bonnie > Underground feature by Shary Flenniken > > * * * > > ## Trots and Bonnie (1971) “Don’t Come Back ‘til yer Wearin’ a Bra!”\* (Trots and Bonnie) / Flenniken. 1 in Merton of the Movement (Berkeley, Calif. : Last Gasp Eco-Funnies, 1971). – Call no.: PN6728.45.L3M4 1971 > > ## Trots and Bonnie (1971) “Hugh Hefner”\* (Trots and Bonnie) / Flenniken. 1 p. in Merton of the Movement (Berkeley, Calif. : Last Gasp Eco-Funnies, 1971). – Call no.: PN6728.45.L3M4 1971 > > ## Trots and Bonnie (1971) “I Wonder What Brand of Mouthwash He Uses?”\* (Trots and Bonnie) / Flenniken. 1 p. in The Tortoise and the Hare (Berkeley, Calif. : Last Gasp Eco-Funnies, 1971). – Call no.: PN6728.45.L3T6 1971 > > ## Trots and Bonnie (1971) “A Little Guerilla Theater”\* (Trots and Bonnie) / Flenniken. 1 p. in Merton of the Movement (Berkeley, Calif. : Last Gasp Eco-Funnies, 1971). – Call no.: PN6728.45.L3M4 1971 > > ## Trots and Bonnie (1971) “The Perfect Birth-Control”\* (Trots and Bonnie) / Flenniken. 1 p. in The Tortoise and the Hare (Berkeley, Calif. : Last Gasp Eco-Funnies, 1971). – Call no.: PN6728.45.L3T6 1971 > > ## Trots and Bonnie (1971) “Sometimes I Really Love the City”\* (Trots and Bonnie) / Flenniken. 1 p. in Merton of the Movement (Berkeley, Calif. : Last Gasp Eco-Funnies, 1971). – Call no.: PN6728.45.L3M4 1971 > > ## Trots and Bonnie (1972) “On the Defensive” (Trots and Bonnie) / Shary Flenniken. 4 p. in Left-Field Funnies, no. 1 (1972). – Call no.: PN6728.45.A6 L4no.1 > > ## Trots and Bonnie (1972) “Trots & Bonnie Meet the General’s Daughter” / by Shary Flenniken. 3 p. in Dopin’ Dan, v. 1, no. 1 (1972). – Call no.: PN6728.45.L3D6no.1 > > ## Trots and Bonnie (1972) “The Working Girl” (Trots and Bonnie) / Shary Flenniken. 4 p. in Funny Aminals, No. 1 (San Francisco, Calif. : Apex Novelties, 1972). – Call no.: PN6728.45.A6F8 1972 > > ## Trots and Bonnie (Spring 1976) “By the Year 2000 We’ll All Be Ugly Blind Mutants!”\* (Trots and Bonnie) / Shary Flenniken. 1 p. in The Simpleton, v. 1, no. 3 (Spring 1976). – A story about fluorocarbons, the ozone layer, and spray cans. – Call no.: PN6728.45.H63 S4v.1no.3 > > ## Trots and Bonnie–Miscellanea. Index entry (p. 158) to A Century of Women Cartoonists, by Trina Robbins (Northampton, Mass. : Kitchen Sink Press, 1993). Call no.: NC1426.R63 1993 > > ## Trots and Bonnie–Miscellanea. Index entry (p. 117) in Women and the Comics / by Trina Robbins and Catherine Yronwode (Eclipse Books, 1985). Call no.: PN6710.R6 1985 > > “Trots & Bonnie Meet the General’s Daughter” / by Shary > Flenniken. 3 p. in Dopin’ Dan, v. 1, no. 1 (1972). – Call > no.: PN6728.45.L3D6no.1 ---
**Author:** ![Scott\_Plaid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Scott\_Plaid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scott_Plaid)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2005, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trotts-and-bonnie-collection/318431/4 "2005-08-24T15:54:48Z")
:smack: Of course, I posted too fast, not realizing that those are not collections. :smack: > [@Laurent](#): > > ``` > Yup, Glénat/Comics USA published _Trots & Bonnie_ in 1990, which > > ``` > > followed another collection of Flenniken stories, _Sex & Amour_, > published in 1989. I dont remember if T&B appear in this one as well. [Linky](http://groups.google.com/group/rec.arts.comics.misc/browse_thread/thread/4a7b4017cf25b361/55e5a86261a94697?lnk=st&q=Trots+and+Bonnie+%2BGl%C3%A9nat%2FComics&rnum=1&hl=en#55e5a86261a94697) ---
**Author:** ![Scott\_Plaid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Scott\_Plaid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scott_Plaid)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2005, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trotts-and-bonnie-collection/318431/5 "2005-08-24T16:02:00Z")
Oh, and [here](http://www.amazon.fr/exec/obidos/ASIN/2876951320/qid=1124899590/sr=8-4/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i4_xgl15/402-2566650-1139306) is the isdn number, not that it helps, since it is so frigging out of print: ISBN : 2876951320 ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2005, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trotts-and-bonnie-collection/318431/6 "2005-08-24T16:15:02Z")
The thing that surprises me is that, despite the fact that the strip has been running for over thirty years, there apparently has never been a collection of Bobby London’s “Dirty Duck” series. ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2005, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trotts-and-bonnie-collection/318431/7 "2005-08-24T16:22:57Z")
And I didn’t know until just now that Bobby London and Shary Flenniken used to be married. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2005, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trotts-and-bonnie-collection/318431/8 "2005-08-25T05:17:22Z")
I knew that but it was only this week that I found out that Richard Widmark was Sandy Koufax’s father-in-law.