The idea to do a show of people eating breakfast came to me in the fall of 1991 as I sat alone at my work processor in Berlin, with a cup of black coffee and a peach (yeah, I was having breakfast). The idea that famous women be portrayed followed immediately, because a woman who achieves distinction has to 'create herself', and that has almost always required a strong public personality. The contrast between this public construction and the intimate personality of the breakfast table is something I find exciting...

Adding an interpretive twist is way in which the artists, hetrosexual and lesbian, from twelve different national backgounds have interpreted the task. In a few instances the same character has been portrayed by two different artists. These interpretations are always radically at odds.

After deciding that I was sufficiently fascinated by the theme to create a show around it, I asked for assistance - the most formidable being from Carol Bennett, founder of FANNY. Brief data on our backgrounds is below.

CAROL BENNETT has been involved with comics for ten years as an editor at Knockabout Comics producing humorous underground comics. And more recently as organiser for
"FANNY"
'The Directory of Women comic Strip Artists, Writers and Cartoonists'
c/o Knockabout,
10 Acklam Road,
London, W10 5QZ.

FANNY has collected together the details of as many of the world's cartoonists as possible. The Directory has examples of the women's work and is available to all editors, publishers and the press for the promotion and employment of women cartoonists.

She edited 'Seven Ages of Woman' (1990), an anthology of comic strips by seven women based on on original idea by William Shakespeare, in addition to two FANNY titles 'Ceasefire-Women Against War' and 'Voyeuse-Women View Sex' both published in 1991.