Be a Bloody Train Driver!

by Jacky Fleming

Excellent Book

Genres: Bande Dessinée

96 pages, Paperback

First published October 31, 1991

About the author

Jacky Fleming went to a suffragette school in London. She emerged awesomely uneducated because of the teachers' inexplicable preference for Latin as a first language. A year at Chelsea School of Art and a degree in fine art at Leeds University greatly improved her table-football technique. Other qualifications include A— for posture and a silver medal in Latin-American dancing. A brief stint in the art department of a London periodical was followed by eleven years teaching art as a foreign language. Jacky lives in Yorkshire and hates cooking. (from Be a Bloody Train Driver)

Jacky Fleming was born in London in 1955. In her art studies at Leeds University, she began to deal with feminism. Her first comic strips appeared in 1978 and since then she has been drawing for newspapers, among others. for The Guardian, The Observer, The Big Issue and for various publishers.

Reviews

[Katya]

Jacky Fleming tem um estilo inconfundível e um sentido de humor mordaz, oportuno e impecável. Tem-nos hoje e já os tinha em 1991 quando publicou Be a bloody train driver, um livro cheio de apontamentos brilhantes sobre expectativas de género, atitudes machistas, tradições condescendentes, inconvenientes biológicos e atos de rebeldia feminina.



Tal como acontece com The trouble with women, o riso é fácil, mas a sensação seguinte é de desconforto: do sexismo no local de trabalho, ao confronto feminino vs sororidade, das expectativas sociais à normalização de papéis de género obsoletos no seio familiar, tudo cabe numas dezenas de traços despretensiosos.



O mundo é, definitivamente, um lugar injusto para as mulheres, mas, para Jacky Fleming, o futuro é promissor - ou não fosse a heroína deste trabalho uma pestinha feminista e destemida.
Assustadoramente divertido é o que isto é.

[Elizabeth · Rating 5 out of 5]

This little comic book always makes me laugh.
It's from a feminist perspective and really comes truly from the female point of view.
Yay Jackie Flemming!

[𓆩♡𓆪 · Rating 5 out of 5]

I LOVE THIS!!! Gift from my beloved Bella ❤️❤️❤️

[Rosemary Standeven · Rating 4 out of 5]

Having thought that “The Trouble with Women” was brilliant, I was keen to read some of Jackie Fleming’s other books – so bought “Be a Bloody Train Driver” and “Demented”.
“’Train Driver started as it meant to go on: Boy: “When I grow up …”, Girl: “You won’t”.
Most of the cartoons picture a young girl, with either a cross face (males acting ridiculously), looking confused (males acting ridiculously) – or with a really wicked, mischievous grin (males acting ridiculously, and getting their come-uppance). A few of the cartoons I didn’t quite get, but many more were laugh-out-loud hilarious.
Many of the cartoons were thought provoking. There were some very apt ones relating to sexual abuse attitudes: “Georgie Porgie pudding and pie, Kissed the girls and made them cry … don’t even THINK about it”, “as Judge Senile not only BLATANTLY FLAUNTED his stupidity and incompetence, but was also PROVOCATIVELY dressed in a wig and gown, we can only assume he was inviting violent assault”.
All in all, I really enjoyed this book – though not quite so much as “The Trouble with Women”. That may be because this book dealt with many different feminist/female issues, and thus was not quite so focussed. I would recommend the book to anyone wanting a subversive laugh at male-female relationships – from a feminist angle.

[Cassandra · Rating 5 out of 5]

aaaaaah this is just so brilliant.
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Can certainly see where she got The Trouble With Women from.

one of my favourites (which doesn't need the pic): "...then he said why was I trying to CHANGE him and I said probably because he's such an obnoxious thoughtless selfish overbearing self-righteous hypocritical arrogant loudmouthed misogynist bastard..."